@JuanS_OCS and @nhvdwalt, thank you for your replies!
We are told that Alation will need to get access to our Metadata. At this time we are scheduled to have a meeting with our business partners to go over in more detail as to what is really needed from SAS. Below is all the documentation from Alation regarding how to connect to SAS. As you can see there is not much detail, i will post next week after we have had our meeting, hopefully we will have more details.
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SAS
Configuring SAS in Alation
- To configure SAS in Alation, you will need the following information:
- Hostname or IP address of your server
- Port number
Service account with privileges listed below
Supported Versions
Contact Alation.
Preliminaries
Firewall Configuration:
- Open outbound TCP port 8591 to SAS Workspace server.
SAS Workspace Server should be installed on your SAS server and Alation should be able to
connect to the SAS Workspace Server.
Create Service Account
You'll need to create an account on the SAS Workspace Server that supports host
Authentication. Instructions on defining host authenticated users can be found here http://support.sas.com/rnd/itech/doc9/admin_oma/security/auth/security_impauthhost.html
Metadata Extraction
You'll need to allocate the following libraries to the SAS WorkSpace Server using the SAS
Management Console. Instructions on allocation can be found here http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/emxndg/67980/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p15m68fofeq4imn1jms...
Table Profiles
Same as Metadata Extraction.
QLI Setup
Not Supported