Hi Andrew,   take a look at the following link:  http://support.sas.com/certify/creds/samples/   Scroll down towards the end to Platfrom Admin and take a look at the example questions.   For a question such as "The location of the repository manager physical files can be found in" one of the topics you could read up on is: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bisag/68240/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p1n3ivrea2b8fgn1at5j88gyteqj.htm Being aware of the Metadata Server, its config files and log files.   For a question such as "By default, which groups have WriteMetadata on the Foundation repository?", looking over the authorization part of the Platform will prepare you.   If you haven't seen the questions on the link I referenced, one of the ways to approach the exam is reading up on the chapters around the questions.   You can see what's about security, config files, users/groups, SAS servers etc., so you can work with the SASMC Admin Guide, Platform Admin Guide and Sec Guide to go through the areas covered in that certification.   See http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/tabs/admin94.html to find the admin guides I mentioned above.   Hope that helps! Good luck!!   Feel free to post any questions you might have regarding any of the chapters/questions on the ref site.   Thanks Anja ... View more

Hi,   The reason for creating libraries and tables in Metadata (and other objects for that matter), is to A) give you a single point of control for your entire SAS environment, and B) have a great opportunity to set up permissions and "bringing in" your data/third party data.   Ad A: SAS Management Console is your main administration tool (I am leaving it at main admin tool and am disregarding the Env Manager here). This client is a single point of control client for admins. Single point of control means, you don't have to go from machine to machine to maintain, update etc. No matter how many machines you have in your environment, you can administer it all from this one client.   Now ... In order to actually get this single point of control functionality, all your data has to be created and registered in metadata. This includes users, groups, roles, permissions, folders - and libraries and tables.   By creating libraries in metadata, and by registering tables in metadata, you can grant and deny permissions to groups and users.   Ad B: To give you one example (there are many more): Users assign libname statements in SAS w/out using metadata. The libname statement points to a path on the OS (am focusing on OS only right now and won't consider any DBMS, ERP etc). With this, you have all data sets on this location available to you. You probably use OS permissions to secure access, or, you create many folders to "spread out" your tables to get your permission set up integrated, or, you might just have a set up where all users can access all tables.   The easier and best way (I am saying "best" cause I am in big favor of metadata 🙂 ) is to create a library in SASMC, and then, during the registration process, register only the tables that you would like to have in that certain library. This might make it easier for you because you can create libraries and folders based on, example, BUs, depts etc. Register the tables for the BUs, create groups for each BU, and then apply permissions to have a full "metadata circle".   So to describe it full circle: By creating libraries and by registering tables you not only create a set up for you that is maintained easily, in addition it gives you great flexibility with permissions.   You can find some additional information on libraries in metadata on this site: What Does It Mean to Assign a Library? http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bidsag/69848/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0vuopkmrlxhg4n1h86fd3w16kj2.htm   This documentation also includes information on DBMS, pre-assigned etc libraries.   Does this help a bit?   Thanks Anja ... View more

Hi,   here is what you can try: create - manually - a folder called "Backups" under \config dir\Lev1\SASMeta\MetadataServer   Then, in SASMC, Backup Config, instead of just backup, add the fully qualified path to the new backup location as \config dir\Lev1\SASMeta\MetadataServer\Backups and try the backup again (test all the ways you usually do it plus SASMC).   Do you have all the permissions to run batch jobs? Please remind me: are you on Unix or Win. Win privileges come to mind, or, Unix permissions   Thanks Anja ... View more

Hi,   When you go to SASMC, Metadata Manager, Metadata Utilities, Server Backup: right click, Backup Configuration. Does it just show "Backup" or a full path?   Thanks Anja ... View more

Hi,   take a look at the following SAS Note: http://support.sas.com/kb/59/824.html   Is this the entire error message or is there more in the log file? Are you using VM? What SAS 9.4 maintenance release are you running?   Thanks Anja       ... View more

Hi,   what are all the SAS versions you have installed, and, do you have a Metadata Server or non-Metadata environment?   Hypothetically removing the files and registry files can work, however, I would probably not do it without talking to Tech Sup.   Thanks Anja ... View more