SAS 9 Content Assessment

[RexDeus9]

All,

Anyone tried a SAS 9 Content Assessment with multiple servers? SAS docs says to merge the resulting Datamart's on one server in order to perform the 'publish' part, witch is what you end up sending to SAS for analysis.

How exactly do we proceed (they don't say)? Do we copy each Datamart folder:

/assessment/datamart

/assessment/datamart1

/assessment/datamart2

Thx for your input.

[AhmedAl_Attar]

Hi @RexDeus9 
Have a look at this blog https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2021/07/23/how-to-use-the-sas-9-content-assessment-tool/?msclkid=b...

And this Tech Support doc: https://support.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/technical-papers/sas-content-assessment-proven-pr...

Hope this helps

[RexDeus9]

HI @AhmedAl_Attar 

Went through the extra documentation provided, but sorry, it doesn't provide the answer. With mutliple servers, I can't imagine copying the datamart content of one server to the overall datamart folder, some files will be overwritten.

[AhmedAl_Attar]

@RexDeus9 
Can you please clarify what do you mean by multiple servers?

Is it

• Multiple tiers (Meta, Compute, Web)
• OR
• Multiple instances of each tier (Meta, MetaN, Comp1, Comp2, CompN, Web, WebN) 

@GerryNelson  any insight/tips you can share here?

[RexDeus9]

Multiple tiers (Meta, Compute, Web)

Also, there's no mention of the Visual Analytics servers. We have 4 of them in our case.

[LinusH]

If I remember  correctly, CA should be able to collect data from all tiers.

The need to move & merge data occur if you want to assess more than one environment, e.g., dev, test, prod. 

[GerryNelson]

For multiple tiers, I would run Content Assessment on the compute tier, which will be able to contact the other two tiers and is most likely to have access to the file system where SAS programs, data sets, and libraries reside.