https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Preventing-SAS-Web-App-Server-to-start/m-p/982705#M30622 <P>I have&nbsp; a client who has multiple SAS Web App Servers.</P> <P>On of them has products currently not in use. And we wish to save resources by not starting it.</P> <P>If I understand correctly the sas.servers.mid script uses a simple&nbsp;</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">/bin/echo SASServer*</CODE></PRE> <P>It seems easy just to rename the SASServer<EM>X</EM>_1 directory. But does that any unwanted side effects?</P> <P>I guess the alternative is to unregister those products using the SAS Deployment Manager, but that seems a bit...final...</P> <P>We are on RHEL, 9.4M7 and M8.</P> <P>Any thoughts/recommendations are appreciated.</P> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:12:52 GMT LinusH 2026-01-30T08:12:52Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Preventing-SAS-Web-App-Server-to-start/m-p/982705#M30622 <P>I have&nbsp; a client who has multiple SAS Web App Servers.</P> <P>On of them has products currently not in use. And we wish to save resources by not starting it.</P> <P>If I understand correctly the sas.servers.mid script uses a simple&nbsp;</P> <PRE><CODE class=" language-sas">/bin/echo SASServer*</CODE></PRE> <P>It seems easy just to rename the SASServer<EM>X</EM>_1 directory. But does that any unwanted side effects?</P> <P>I guess the alternative is to unregister those products using the SAS Deployment Manager, but that seems a bit...final...</P> <P>We are on RHEL, 9.4M7 and M8.</P> <P>Any thoughts/recommendations are appreciated.</P> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:12:52 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Preventing-SAS-Web-App-Server-to-start/m-p/982705#M30622 LinusH 2026-01-30T08:12:52Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Preventing-SAS-Web-App-Server-to-start/m-p/982787#M30628 <P>This thread should help you.&nbsp; Note, even if you un-deploy the webapps the&nbsp;saswebappsrvs remain.&nbsp;</P> <P><A href="https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Empty-Web-App-Servers/m-p/975529" target="_blank">Re: Empty Web App Servers - SAS Support Communities</A></P> Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:14:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Preventing-SAS-Web-App-Server-to-start/m-p/982787#M30628 angian 2026-02-01T03:14:28Z