Hi, I am a newb to SAS. We are implementing SAS Office Analytics on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and are having problems getting to SAS Studio from outside the cloud (i.e., our corp. network).
So, I have installed SAS OA as a 3 machine configuration (SAS App/Metadata/Mid-Tier) in our GCP VPC. We have set up load balancer with the backend directed to the SAS Mid-Tier server on port 7980 (the default). Access to servers in the VPC is, of course, restricted and is controlled via a bastion server on port 22, hence the need for the LB. The load balancer is HTTPS on the front end (i.e., coming into the cloud) and HTTP on the backed (i.e., inside the cloud going to SAS).
Our problem is that when we attempt to open a SAS Studio connection through the load balancer, we are seeing that SAS redirects the browser to a logon URL for SAS using the local (cloud) host name for the Mid-Tier server, which is not defined in the public network outside the cloud. This of course fails for DNS name resolution. We have attempted for troubleshooting/testing purposes to add the FQDN for the Mid-Tier server in a local hosts file on the originating PC with an IP of the load balancer, and this gets us past the name resolution but not into the SAS Server. Still working on that from a cloud perspective.
NOTE: I have tested the failing URL from the redirect using a cURL on the SAS Mid-Tier and it works, so, this looks to be a cloud/connectivity related issue vs. a SAS OA/SAS Studio issue
So, my question, is there another way to configure this to make it work? Am I missing something in the configuration? Is there some way I can prevent that bounce back redirect or specify our 'SASCLOUD' host name that is defined for the LB outside of GCP? Any help/suggestions here would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks, Dennis
... View more