@Matt,
How many application servers do you have in your environment? It appears that you have more than one application server and you are using an incorrect server in SAS Visual Analytics Administrator. Please go to File -> Properties -> Application Server and select correct application server for SAS Visual Analytics.
Also, if the SMP LASR server wasn't stopped gracefully. For an example, you stopped the object spawner without stopping SMP LASR first, you will get the following message:
Insufficient authorization to perform operation on file <PATH TO PID FILE>
In this case, the PID file has to be removed because the file got corrupted.
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