topic Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment in Administration and Deployment

SAS 9 Content Assessment

RexDeus9 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:05:06 GMT

All,

Anyone tried a SAS 9 Content Assessment with multiple servers? SAS docs says to merge the resulting Datamart's on one server in order to perform the 'publish' part, witch is what you end up sending to SAS for analysis.

How exactly do we proceed (they don't say)? Do we copy each Datamart folder:

/assessment/datamart

/assessment/datamart1

/assessment/datamart2

Thx for your input.

Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment

AhmedAl_Attar — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:47:20 GMT

Hi @RexDeus9
Have a look at this blog https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2021/07/23/how-to-use-the-sas-9-content-assessment-tool/?msclkid=bfef1e72c7e711ec90c9d3ffa50f819e

And this Tech Support doc: https://support.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/technical-papers/sas-content-assessment-proven-practice.pdf

Hope this helps

Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment

RexDeus9 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:16:11 GMT

HI @AhmedAl_Attar

Went through the extra documentation provided, but sorry, it doesn't provide the answer. With mutliple servers, I can't imagine copying the datamart content of one server to the overall datamart folder, some files will be overwritten.

Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment

AhmedAl_Attar — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:14:15 GMT

@RexDeus9
Can you please clarify what do you mean by multiple servers?

Is it

Multiple tiers (Meta, Compute, Web)
OR
Multiple instances of each tier (Meta, MetaN, Comp1, Comp2, CompN, Web, WebN)

@GerryNelson any insight/tips you can share here?

Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment

RexDeus9 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:18:28 GMT

Multiple tiers (Meta, Compute, Web)

Also, there's no mention of the Visual Analytics servers. We have 4 of them in our case.

Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment

LinusH — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:26:22 GMT

If I remember correctly, CA should be able to collect data from all tiers.

The need to move & merge data occur if you want to assess more than one environment, e.g., dev, test, prod.

Re: SAS 9 Content Assessment

GerryNelson — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:07:39 GMT

For multiple tiers, I would run Content Assessment on the compute tier, which will be able to contact the other two tiers and is most likely to have access to the file system where SAS programs, data sets, and libraries reside.