topic Re: Difference between SASMC installed on server and workstation in Administration and Deployment

Difference between SASMC installed on server and workstation

Nigel_Pain — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:12:04 GMT

SAS 9.4M8 on Windows Server 2019 platforms and Windows 11 clients

Is there any reason for a difference between what I can see in SAS Management Console installed on one of our servers and what I can see on a Windows 11 laptop? In both cases they are installed from our software depot so I would expect them to be the same. But the Application Management plugin has no contents on the laptop, whilst it has the Configuration Manager and Deployment Tester on the servers. Also (just cosmetic) the fonts are quite different in size. I'm guessing that's a JRE setting but it's the same version of Zulu Java (which has been flagged as having vulnerabilities but that's another story!)

Laptop:

Server:

Thanks

Re: Difference between SASMC installed on server and workstation

ronf_sas — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:46:43 GMT

The SAS Deployment Tester plugin and the Configuration Manager get installed as part of a planned deployment (using a plan file), which would be how your server was deployed. On the workstation, if you installed SMC without using a plan file (Install Additional Software) then you would not get SAS Deployment Tester plugin (client) and Configuration Manager manager unless you explicitly checked the boxes for them on the Products to Install panel of the SAS Deployment Wizard.

I'm unsure about the fonts thing. Possibly just a difference at the OS level.

Re: Difference between SASMC installed on server and workstation

Nigel_Pain — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:01:09 GMT

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks @ronf_sas