topic Re: Automating user addition into SAS SMC in Administration and Deployment

Automating user addition into SAS SMC

SundeepK — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:31:02 GMT

Hi All,

I have all my users on Active directory/Linux. Is there a way whenever new user come in, can we automate the user addition directly into SAS SMC.

Appreciate your help...!

Regards

Sandy

Re: Automating user addition into SAS SMC

gwootton — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:32:46 GMT

Yes, SAS provides sample programs you can schedule to do this.

Overview of User Bulk Load and Synchronization
https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/bicdc/9.4/bisecag/n0l2hp5m00a1z2n1b598q4pknfih.htm

Re: Automating user addition into SAS SMC

NEFossum — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:47:48 GMT

If you automate this, do not connect to a named domain controller, if your company have multiple - use the load balancer in front. You do not want one single point of failure - been there, done that, and got the t-shirt. The named DC was down, and all users deleted from SMC 🙂

You may also want to look into the 3rd-party plug-ins for 9.4 from Metacoda, and their "Identity Sync": A New Perspective on Your SAS® Metadata – Metacoda

Now we just mark users for deletion while syncing, and do a manual verification before users are removed - you may not want to leave a lot of content "without owner" in your metadata.

Re: Automating user addition into SAS SMC

MichelleHomes — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 01:14:13 GMT

Thank you @NEFossum for mentioning your experience using Metacoda Plug-ins software. The Metacoda Identity Sync tag-delete feature is very popular and appreciated for the reason you mentioned and may avoid having to revert to a backup. 😎

@SundeepK if you would like to learn more about how the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in has helped other SAS admins, please have a look at some of the SAS Community threads:

If you are interested in trying out Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in in your own environment, you can register for a 30 day free trial. There are many success stories where SAS customers have streamlined their user administration using Metacoda Identity Sync and some examples are:

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Kind Regards,

Michelle