topic Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG in Administration and Deployment

SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Jeanessa — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:06:54 GMT

Greetings,

I am trying to copy over the SAS Personal Login Manager from 1 PC to another, so that i can be used on the new PC. Right Now SAS EG is installed on the PC. I would like to copy over my SAS Personal Manager over so I can use it on the new PC.

Anyone out there know how to do this?

A million heart felt thanks.

Jeanessa

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASKiwi — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 22:46:08 GMT

AFAIK, SAS Personal Login Manager would have to be installed from a SAS Software Depot like any other SAS client software. Talk to your SAS administrator if you are unfamiliar with this.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

AnandVyas — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:56:33 GMT

Hi @Jeanessa

You will have to install it like any other application. I don't think you can just copy it.

Also, you can manage your password using EG itself.

– Select Tools->SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer. The SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer windows appears.
– Select File->Manage Logins. The Login Manager window appears.

The Login Manager window works very similarly to the Personal Login Manager application.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASWayne — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 09:56:39 GMT

@AnandVyas

Any idea where to find this option in SAS EG 8.3? I could not find SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer under tools menu.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:25:13 GMT

I don't think it's available directly from EG anymore. Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\SASHome\x86\SASEnterpriseGuide\8 (or wherever EG is installed) and look for SEGExplorer.exe.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASWayne — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 11:05:28 GMT

Thanks!
Wondering if there is a way to managing the logins from within SAS EG itself?

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:11:31 GMT

Not with 8.3 as far as I can see. But the old SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer option in the Tools menu just opened SEGExplorer.exe anyway.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASWayne — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 12:14:08 GMT

You're right, I couldn't find it either from within SAS EG. However SAS EG Explorer is there in the SAS EG's installation directory.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASKiwi — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:37:12 GMT

SAS EG Explorer disappeared from EG several versions ago. Just maintaining your user account and password in the EG connection profile is current practice.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 08:46:02 GMT

That's fine for your DefaultAuth account, but if you have accounts for other Auth Domains (eg. to connect to external databases) I don't think you can maintain them in the EG Connection Profile. However, SAS EG Explorer is still there in the installation, just not directly accessible from EG itself.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASKiwi — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 02:39:29 GMT

While EG Explorer install files may be still present I'm not aware of any way to invoke it. If you use different AuthDomains then I suspect you would need to create separate connection profiles for each one with EG 8.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 08:33:48 GMT

Not sure how creating a different connection profile for access to a database would work because you'd not have a valid connection to SAS.. If I need to I run EG Explorer from File Explorer:

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASKiwi — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 04:15:40 GMT

That's interesting. Didn't know you could run it that way. Works for me too! So even though it is deprecated, it is still usable.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 08:43:34 GMT

Is it definitely deprecated? Not quite sure how one could manage logins other than DefaultAuth ones without it, apart from PLM. Would be good to get a view from someone at SAS. How about @ChrisHemedinger?

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

ChrisHemedinger — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:57:38 GMT

The tool was removed from the main SAS EG interface because SAS Management Console and Personal Login Manager are the official tools for viewing/managing these metadata-based items. However, as you point out, the application is still in the install directory and can be used. I wouldn't expect SAS Tech Support to direct you to it (because they will recommend the other apps I mentioned), but I don't see any harm in using SAS EG Explorer if it's convenient.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASKiwi — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 21:11:50 GMT

I use SAS Management Console to maintain users / passwords on AuthDomains for databases. Is that an option for you?

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 09:02:41 GMT

Also to @ChrisHemedinger

We try not to install any of the Java-based packages for people unless they absolutely need them. This is because we had all kinds of problems getting them packaged in SCCM, and installing them has quite a large network payload, especially where the majority of staff are still working from home, often across slow Broadband connections.

Management Console is mainly installed for platform admins (like me) and a few folk who use job scheduling. So, where login management is required, I'll still direct people to EG Explorer.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

SASWayne — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 06:43:20 GMT

@Nigel_Pain @ChrisHemedinger @SASKiwi Any idea if SAS Personal login manager is a paid software or a free one?

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

Nigel_Pain — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:44:37 GMT

Free as far as I know.

Re: SAS Personal Login Manager To Use With SAS EG

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:26:34 GMT

It's part of the suite of apps that come with Base and SAS Metadata Server, such as SAS Management Console. No special license needed. The standalone install (as @Nigel_Pain points out) can be a challenge though, as you must go through the SAS Deployment Wizard.