Hello All, if someone can please help,
wanted to know what is the best way to stop/start individual sas (9.4 M3) applications, lets say SAS EG (as desktop) and SAS EM (as web) application in cluster grid environment on Linux? Thank you -
Hello @woo,
yours is a very good and interesting question.
For the interest of my explanations, I am going to understand that, when you say "stop" you can also mean "disable", which is in the end is the same result for you and your end-users.
First of all, I think it would be a good idea to get some basic knowledge on how SAS servers do work:
The point of it is that:
So, ways to stop them:
Web based applications (SAS Studio, Miner, Forecast, Portal, Web Stored Process, VA Report viewer, VA Administrator, VA Hub, etc)
My preferred way, generally speaking, is the 3rd option.
Fully Desktop based applications (Enterprise Guide, Addon for Office)
Generally speaking, I usually select options 3 (when available) and or 6. Option 1 just in a few cases, and, as responsible of installations, sometimes executing variances of option 2, but this requires approval and agreement from the business users and other possible stakeholders.
Hope it helps.
Kind regards,
Juan
Your question is lacking detail. Do you mean as a SAS administrator how do you stop the SAS server workspace sessions that EG and EM users start? Or do you mean something else?
I am sorry if it has confused folks.
I meant what is best way for sas admin to completely shutdown only few SAS applications (SAS EG as Desktop application and SAS EM as web application) while continue running other SAS applications like SAS MS Add-in or SAS Studio. is it possible or we must have to bring down everything with ./sasserver.sh script? Thank you -
Since SAS Studio and the Office Add-In use the same backend(s) that EG uses, you can't do that. Once you stop the spawner (no more workspace servers) and the OLAP server, everything's dead.
What is the reason for your question?
Hello @woo,
yours is a very good and interesting question.
For the interest of my explanations, I am going to understand that, when you say "stop" you can also mean "disable", which is in the end is the same result for you and your end-users.
First of all, I think it would be a good idea to get some basic knowledge on how SAS servers do work:
The point of it is that:
So, ways to stop them:
Web based applications (SAS Studio, Miner, Forecast, Portal, Web Stored Process, VA Report viewer, VA Administrator, VA Hub, etc)
My preferred way, generally speaking, is the 3rd option.
Fully Desktop based applications (Enterprise Guide, Addon for Office)
Generally speaking, I usually select options 3 (when available) and or 6. Option 1 just in a few cases, and, as responsible of installations, sometimes executing variances of option 2, but this requires approval and agreement from the business users and other possible stakeholders.
Hope it helps.
Kind regards,
Juan
Thank you so much Juan for your time to explain it in details, I would hardly find all these treasure in any article or book.
I think "create ACT and deny RM for SAS Applications" option would fit for me, I will definitely go through those 2 articles as well...
Thanks Again...
Very glad to know this is helping you, @woo.
The information is surely there. perhaps not everything in a single paper or SAS document, but it is there. I can be creative sometimes but I don't invent the rules 😉
Just an example, for the one you mentioned:
http://support.sas.com/kb/40/920.html
http://support.sas.com/kb/36/029.html
http://support.sas.com/kb/34/157.html
https://communities.sas.com/t5/tkb/articleprintpage/tkb-id/library/article-id/2224
Conclusion: many places! The information is there, but you ought to know how to interpret/translate it and put it together, which indeed can be a bit hard sometimes. I can also tell you, the documentation is becoming better and better through the years.
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