I don't think it's related to licensing. Are you running on Linux or Windows? Did you install the PC Files Server? What's your code? ... View more

Uhm... sasdev is the current hostname? If you ping it, can it be resolved to an IP address? That should be the IP of your host. ... View more

Oh, didn't get it. This is strange: ERROR: The current date of Tuesday, May 23, 2023 is past the final expiration date for your SAS system, which is Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Please contact your SAS Installation Representative to obtain your updated SAS Installation Data (SID) file, which ERROR: includes SETINIT information. Are you getting the latest log? Host date/time is ok?   ... View more

EDIT:  SASFoundation look ok! Now you have to update Metadata license with SAS Deployment Manager as you were trying before. ... View more

If Foundation license was expired, it's possible that DM couldn't update it. It's sort-of self consistency. Can you launch a SAS Foundation session from command line? ... View more

I see it clear: To change the file permissions to what SAS deployment tools prefer, use the following command. This command should be performed using the account of the owner of the depot. chmod -R 755 "/sas/SAS_with_VA_depot"   ... View more

I endorse @SASKiwi . In my SAS Admin career I had to prove a lot of hard skil, but also a number of soft skills that could never stand out in an interview. ... View more

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood your first sentence. I've seen some Ansible implementations, others via sorts-of a framework bound to an operation manager, each with pros and cons, but whether you check single script output (single service or sas.servers) or listening ports... It's always difficult to keep the "wants" of services , and you'll always have to check them manually. LSM does a great job with minimum implementation effort. ... View more

I don't get it. How did you implement LSM in systemd with single services? ... View more

Hi Greg, my deployment is a commonly multi-tiered VA install, but the customer IT wants to manage OS patches and restart the hosts freely, being sure the SAS platform would get back online.   I'm already using LSM, I've forked it on GitHub to make my personalisations (e.g., not update check on startup, manage a  Grid, and some other tweaks). The UserExit scripts aren't documented much, so I had to tinker a lot to manage extra components like solr. I think I'll get it in the systemd script au lieu de sas.servers, since it would check the BE prerequisites. I've modded the sas.servers.mid.template to do some housekeeping at shutdown (delete tmlogs, empty tomcat work and temp, rotate catalina.out) ... I'm pimping my deploys ! 😄   ... View more

Yes, I'd like to manage the sas.server from systemd. I'm trying a systemd service invoking it, it's working... simplier than I thought! ... View more

SAS Logging can be a strange beast. but it's easy to mod and mantain, except that damned 😄 catalina.out . SAS 9.4 Logging: Configuration and Programming Reference, Second Edition Beware: any app (web based, or any kind of service) that can't log at start will not start. Test throughly you modded XML!     ... View more

Sorry for being late. In some environments I manage, I "excluded" some webapps deconfiguring them via Deployment Manager. That's the most clean solution and somehow "most definitive" solution, the app will not appear in your deployment registry any more. In others, I just modded the installation, renaming the appropriate XML file in [config]/LevX/Web/WebAppServer/SASServerX_X/conf/Catalina/localhost/ So, at restart, Tomcat won't deploy the app. Hope it helps. ... View more

Hi Heiko,  your installation is single or multi tier? Do you need to stop starting just Studio or all the mid tier servers (SASServers) ? ... View more