topic Restricting user access to SAS Grid in Administration and Deployment

Restricting user access to SAS Grid

sasprofile — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 06:26:54 GMT

Hello all,

Please can some one provide answer to below question

In our environment all the users by default have access to submit jobs to SAS Grid.

How can we restrict some users to submit Jobs to sas grid environment ?

Thank you

Re: Restricting user access to SAS Grid

AnandVyas — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 03:52:13 GMT

Hi @sasprofile

If logical server under your SAS application server context has a property checked under Load Balancing tab to launch servers via grid then all jobs would use grid. This is usually checked for standard workspace servers so that all the users submitted jobs can utilize the power of grid.

if you have lot of users that use grid then I dont think it's a good option to remove this check.
Instead you can configure a seperate application context for few applications that do not want to use GRID.

Thanks,
AV

Re: Restricting user access to SAS Grid

LinusH — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 05:21:57 GMT

Can you elaborate a bit around this requirement?

Usually (but perhaps not in your case!) data needs to be protected, not computing resources...?

Re: Restricting user access to SAS Grid

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 07:49:20 GMT

Hello @sasprofile,

In GRID you normally can achieve this objective on many ways. The general recommendation would be to set different Queues ( http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/gridref/67371/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p0yk1u22p15nn8n1f2k281jpn4bq.htm , http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/1868-2014.pdf ) and SAS GRID Option Sets ( https://sasglobalforum2016.lanyonevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=11100 ).

The main idea would be:

Different queues can access different SAS resources. Examples: different application servers.
You can ser a different SAS application Server, for executing SAS code on GRID, and another app server for non GRID jobs.
You can set the access to each application server/queue through SAS GRID option sets, ot just metadata permissions

More info about GRID:

https://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/griddocs.html

https://support.sas.com/rnd/scalability/grid/gridpapers.html

PS. @AndrewHowell, many thanks for your excellent job with the papers!