topic Re: Output to local server browser in Administration and Deployment

Output to local server browser

dwunder — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:49:01 GMT

Hello!

I am quite new to SAS and recently deployed a 9.4 environment. Everything is looking good, however the professor would like the browser output to open a local server based firefox installation on the SAS server. If I understand that correctly, you would not need the Remote Browser Server installed on the remote workstation. Does anyone know how I would point the SAS output to the local browser? The OS is RHEL6.

Thank you!

Re: Output to local server browser

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:12:11 GMT

"local server based firefox" is an oxymoron.

Either you want a local firefox to open, or one on the server. Which is it?

Re: Output to local server browser

dwunder — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:27:43 GMT

Wow...thanks for that! I would think you could answer your own question by looking at the subject line, but then you would not get to be so personable, huh?

I would like for server firefox to display output.

Re: Output to local server browser

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:32:42 GMT

Well, around here you are expected to state your questions in a clear and universally understandable way. Keep in mind that many here are not native English speakers/writers and will miss nuances.

Your answer doesn't get you merit points either.

The question I have: if you open the browser that is installed on the server, who is supposed to see its output? EG or SAS Studio has no way of routing display output back to a remote client.

Do you have a GUI session to the server active, like X Windows?

Re: Output to local server browser

dwunder — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:40:03 GMT

Noted...

I'm not big on merit points anyway 🙂

Yes, we are using various X Server products on Microsoft Windows for the GUI session.

Thank you for your help BTW!

Re: Output to local server browser

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:48:12 GMT

OK, so you have the X Windows session, which has a unique display address (echo $DISPLAY). The not so funny thing is that this is completely disconnected from what Enterprise Guide or SAS Studio is doing, so we need to make that connection ourselves.

To start any application on the SAS server (outside of SAS), you need your workspace server configured to allow XCMD. Do this in Management Console / Server Manager. The (probably SASApp) Workspace Server (not the Logical ... Workspace Server) has that configuration option.

Create your output as a HTML file.

Next I'd set DISPLAY to the value from your X Windows session and then start firefox from the command line. My preferred method looks like this:

filename oscmd pipe "export DISPLAY=your_display_address;firefox html_filename 2>&1";

data _null_;
infile oscmd;
input;
put _infile_;
run;

You should at least see the system's response to your commands in the SAS log.

Re: Output to local server browser

dwunder — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:03:31 GMT

Thank you sir for your help. I have been redirected to another project, but have provided your instructions to the individuals in need and believe it will satisfy their request.

Re: Output to local server browser

MichelleHomes — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:12:24 GMT

Thanks @dwunder for sharing your actions. Can you please mark the question as solved so others may learn from the thread in future.

Kind Regards,

Michelle