Connect SAS Enterprise Guide to Visual Analytics different servers

[Chrystopher]

Hi community, 

I'm trying to configure my SAS EG server to connect to SAS Visual Analytics server and to Enterprise Miner Server,  I've been reading about use SAS\CONNECT but I can't find the way to do that. 

The 3 servers have SAS\CONNECT, have Windows Server as OS and SAS 9.4.

I would appreciate any information on how to configure these servers.

Regards.

[SASKiwi]

You use the SIGNON command to create a remote SAS session from your SAS EG session. However, before you try that it would be best to check that the SAS/CONNECT spawner is running on the SAS server you want to connect to. You can do that in SAS Management Console.

If the spawner is running, then you can start to test connections. If you use Windows Authentication in your SAS environment then you are in luck because that works in SAS/CONNECT as well.

%let SASVA = MySASVAServerName 7551; * 7551 is the default CONNECT port;

signon SASVA;

You may have to tweak your SAS networking options, but the above should be a good starting point.

[Chrystopher]

Hi SASKiwi, 

I don't have SAS Viya and in Services a can't find the process called SAS Connect Spawner. It's neccessary to have SAS Viya to make the connection between servers??

Thank you for your help. 

Regards. 

[Patrick]

May be what @JuanS_OCS writes here can help you. 

Also note what he writes related to: "You will need a SAS Administrator to do this".

Btw: A "SAS EG server" doesn't exist. SAS EG is your client with which you connect to a SAS Server.

[Chrystopher]

Thank you Patrick, 

I'm new with this server, but what is the way to do what  @JuanS_OCS  says, I don't know if i need to connect in Metadata Manager or in Server Manager. 

Thanks a lot. 

[JuanS_OCS]

Thank you @Patrick .

Hi  @Chrystopher . You can use SAS/CONNECT from one SAS session (in a server or in your own local PC), as long as you have SAS/CONNECT licensed and configured. Which is not, in many occasions.

But you can indeed make the connection from SAS EG to the basic services on each server, meaning, their Workspace server.

In this sense, you cannot connect to both servers at the same time, just one server/SAS session at a time (except, of course, if you have the availability of SAS/CONNECT).

In this sense, if you connect from SAS EG to the SAS VA server (by default, sasva_metadata_server.yourcompany.com and port 8561), you will be able to interact with it. And the same goes to the SAS E Miner server (saseminer_metadata_server.yourcompany.com). 

If you need to work with both, I highly recommend to have a shared folder, reachable by both servers and your PC, where you can have the input/output of Miner, and that data you can load into SAS VA for reports or explorations.

Is this of any help?

[SASKiwi]

@Chrystopher - I wasn't talking about SAS Viya, only SAS VA and we do exactly what you are trying to do.

If you don't have the SAS/CONNECT spawner running on your VA server, then I suggest you contact SAS Tech Support to explain how you set this up. This is required so you can SIGNON to SAS VA without using a SAS/CONNECT script which is the best way to go. This documentation link should help: https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=connref&docsetTarget=n1wo5zcbwh860mn1nqdvxgyp09y5.htm&docset...