topic Re: Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue in SAS Visual Analytics

Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue

ROY30426 — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:19:21 GMT

Hi SAS Experts,

Recently, My customer told me its a little annoying to start /stop LASR server manually on the web broswer and asked me if there any possible to use sas code control the LASR server.

Fortunately, I found the article about this topic ( link: http://www.sas.com/offices/europe/uk/support/sas-hints-tips/lasr-server-va.html)

and it worked!

There is a thing confused me . When I run the SAS code which mentioned in the article and using BASE SAS 9.4 on the Server which installed VA and it worked successfully.

But when I run the same SAS code on my pc(client) . It didn't work.

This is the code I run on my pc (client) using BASE SAS 9.4:

libname VALIBLA SASIOLA 
     startserver host="myserver" port=10010
  signer="myserver:80/SASLASRAuthorization";

There is the error message:

I also tried to run the same code on my SAS EG (client), It worked.

Is there any code i have to add to login (like EG connect to VA SERVER login setting?) ? If yes, what code/option shoud I add?

Any idea will be appreticated.

Many Thanks,

Roy

Re: Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:46:09 GMT

Have you already looked at http://support.sas.com/kb/56/189.html?

Re: Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:47:34 GMT

And I guess you need to make sure that your local SAS session is connected to the same Metadata Server.

Re: Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:24:10 GMT

Hi @ROY30426,

I think the SAS Note provided by @Kurt_Bremser is wrthy to check if it is fine. Unless just to ensure that those fields are as expected.

Besides, what I see is that your code works if it runs locally on the server (run on the server or with EG), but not if you run it on a different physical location of sas.exe (as your SAS Base on your PC).

Therefore, I would propose you one of the following options:

Create a vbs script with SAS EG, which can be triggered from the PCs (controllers).
Create a shared folders on the server, visible from a limited list of PCs (controllers0, and a script on the servers to run every 5 min to check if an specific file is dropped on that shared folder. If found, it triggers the Start/Stop of the LASR.

Re: Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue

LinusH — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 06:09:47 GMT

To me, this sounds like a centrally managed work. So from other purposes than just curiosity, I think you should be content with a server based routine.

Re: Programmatically start/stop SAS VA LASR server issue

Albert0 — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 02:12:14 GMT

Hi Roy,

Can you post the code you have used to start and stop the LASR Server? The link provided is not available. I would like to do same on my part.

Thanks.

-Albert0