@JuanS_OCS and @nhvdwalt, thank you for your replies! We are told that Alation will need to get access to our Metadata. At this time we are scheduled to have a meeting with our business partners to go over in more detail as to what is really needed from SAS. Below is all the documentation from Alation regarding how to connect to SAS. As you can see there is not much detail, i will post next week after we have had our meeting, hopefully we will have more details.   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SAS Configuring SAS in Alation To configure SAS in Alation, you will need the following information: Hostname or IP address of your server Port number Service account with privileges listed below   Supported Versions Contact Alation.   Preliminaries Firewall Configuration: Open outbound TCP port 8591 to SAS Workspace server. SAS Workspace Server should be installed on your SAS server and Alation should be able to connect to the SAS Workspace Server.   Create Service Account You'll need to create an account on the SAS Workspace Server that supports host Authentication. Instructions on defining host authenticated users can be found here http://support.sas.com/rnd/itech/doc9/admin_oma/security/auth/security_impauthhost.html             Metadata Extraction You'll need to allocate the following libraries to the SAS WorkSpace Server using the SAS Management Console. Instructions on allocation can be found here http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/emxndg/67980/HTML/default/viewer.htm#p15m68fofeq4imn1jmsgmg8xp7xp.htm              Table Profiles Same as Metadata Extraction.   QLI Setup Not Supported ... View more