SAS 9 Content Assessment – How to Process Multiple SAS Object Spawners with SAS 9 Application Usage | Technical Insights and Expertise Blog https://sww.sas.com/blogs/wp/technical-insights/6754/sas-9-content-assessment-how-to-process-multiple-sas-object-spawners-with-sas-9-application-usage/jaholm/2022/11/22   ... View more

When you download the content assessment bundle and unzip/untar a "doc/" folder is created with two good pdfs.     [sas@v64-d10b407-02 assessment]$ ls -al doc total 1144 drwxrwxr-x 2 sas sas 4096 Feb 15 15:54 . drwxrwxr-x 18 sas sas 4096 Mar 13 16:32 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 sas sas 820975 Feb 15 15:53 SASContentAssessment.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 sas sas 337375 Feb 15 15:53 SASContentAssessment-SystemEvaluation.pdf [sas@v64-d10b407-02 assessment]$   You could skip to page 14 of SASContentAssessment.pdf as there is a  "Can’t Wait?" page that is pretty good place to start clicking like Prereqs.     IMPORTANT With the exception of system evaluation, do not run SAS Content Assessment applications on production hosts, especially a production SAS Metadata Server host, if you are concerned about system performance. SAS Content Assessment provides a way to specify a specific SAS Metadata Server host remotely to avoid any performance impact. However, system evaluation needs to run on all hosts with SAS configuration directories. ... View more

Hello MariaD,   Thanks, I'm on it.  I'll ask someone to get with you. I've increased the severity to High as being down is not acceptable.   It's perfectly ok to call the telephone numbers also.  Anytime you don't hear back you should call and tell us this is an emergency.   Regards,   Doug     ... View more

Did you find what you were looking for?  If not open a support ticket to clarify the issue.   doug ... View more

Hello MariaD,   If this is a system down I would call support.   If you email me the track number I'll ask about it.   Phone a Technical Support Consultant 1-800-727-0025 (In US & Canada) 1-919-677-8008 (International) If this is an Emergency SAS problem follow the instructions to request Follow The Sun support. Here is more information about Contacting Tech Support. https://support.sas.com/en/technical-support/contact-sas.html     ... View more

Hello,   You can export SAS folders.    SAS Help Center: About the Batch Export and Import Tools   The subject mentions migration.  You might want to look at this. Migration Focus Area http://support.sas.com/migration/   Installation, Configuration, and Migration Documentation https://support.sas.com/en/documentation/install-center/94/intelligence-platform.html   Migration Papers http://support.sas.com/rnd/migration/papers/index.html   Do I Need a Migration Guide or an Upgrade Coach? https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/482-2013.pdf     ... View more

SAS Help Center: Configuring a Metadata Server Cluster The above information should help.  🙂 ... View more

It's become a little more finesse of an answer.  The document has been updated and possible you need to have updated to the latest 3.5.  But read  Who Can Promote Content? IMPORTANT This section applies to release 3.5 and later. Prior to 3.5 release, only members of the SAS Administrators group can import and export. SAS Help Center: Promotion: Overview ... View more

There is  no way to read once and export to different spks. SAS Help Center: Using the Batch Export Tool   An Analyze/Repair and Backup/REORG would be helpful. See if you can tell if there is a particular export that is slow.   Also   Note: Avoid creating circular or reciprocal group memberships (for example, GroupA is in GroupB, GroupB is in GroupC, and GroupC is in GroupA).  Such relationships introduce unnecessary complexity and can negatively impact performance. When you define nested group memberships (interactively or through importing identity information), the best practice is to use as simple and non-redundant a structure as possible.     SAS(R) 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide, Second Edition SAS Help Center: Add a Custom Group     Circular Metadata-Group Membership Can Make You Dizzy! http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings17/SAS0381-2017.pdf       ... View more

  Migration: Moving to SAS 9.4 | SAS Support   Do I Need a Migration Guide or an Upgrade Coach? https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/482-2013.pdf Engaging SAS Consulting for Assistance SAS Consulting services can help with planning and implementing your SAS upgrade. For more information, see SAS Consulting. Consulting services may be recommended by SAS technical support, or by your account manager or customer loyalty representative. If you want a MetadataServer Cluster nodes can be added at anytime or removed except for the first Metadata Server you install.       ... View more

As a general rule do not put any other SAS server or share the server but with one metadata server.  The metadata server should have it's own system.  If using a metadata server I would recommend anyone server be as big as all 3.  When the cluster is down 1 node it's really down half - 1 slave and 1 master.  The slaves handle all the work.  The master updates metadata (rw) and the slaves(ro) handle the users connections and read only queries.  So running 1 metadata slave means it does the work of 2 and the master still does the read-write work.  Consider the CPU/Memory/IO that the 3 do.  I'd triple it.  I'd give lots of cpu cores so that the Metadata Server has the most threads to work with as this determines by algorithm how wide that is.  There still can be a bottleneck if you have a user running a long read that may have to finish before the update can be done so that there are no dirty reads.   Honestly a single metadata server node flattens the hierarchy and latency in my mind over a cluster of metadata servers.  A cluster complicates administration.  A cluster is something one must be robust with. ... View more

Hello,   When the user logs in is in the SASMetadataServer*.log in the form:   SASMeta_MetadataServer_2020-03-15_v64-t71221-01_31503.log: 2020-03-15T12:05:00,163 INFO [00330077] :sasevs@saspw - New client connection (9374) accepted from server port 8561 for user sasevs@saspw. Encryption level is Credentials using encryption algorithm SASPROPRIETARY. Peer IP address and port are [::ffff:10.11.14.195]:45570 for APPNAME=Environment Manager 904500.   You could probably figure out when they logged out examining the closed line matching the (9374) connection.   You can help yourself in the admin guide to auditting but the recommended way to monitor is to use SAS Environment Manager. SAS Help Center: Audit Changes to Server Logging Configurations   Please look into the SAS environment Manager Service Architecture Framework for 9.4 - https://support.sas.com/rnd/emi/SASEnvMgr/EVSAF/index.html The list of available reports is at the end of that link, in particular the Audit Reports - log forensic section should be of interest to you.     ... View more

There are many 3rd party provisioning software products. Microsoft's SCCM and MECM are just a couple. Provisioning software like these still use SAS's native SDW (SAS Deployment Wizard) in their packages. Here is documentation that will assist with provisioning SAS with 3rd party software, like SCCM and MECM. "Provisioning SAS on Windows" in the SAS 9.4 Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide. Start with "Provisioning Overview." Note: The Provision System Requirements section in Step One is optional, not required. http://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=biig&docsetTarget=p15intellplatform00installgd.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en ... View more

Are you using 94M6 at least?     OS requirements https://support.sas.com/documentation/installcenter/en/ikfdtnwinsr/64429/PDF/default/sreq.pdf   The interactive OS matrix: https://support.sas.com/supportos/list?requestAction=summary&outputView=sasrelease&sasrelease=9.3&platformGroup=Windows&platformName=Windows+Server+2016   Windows2016 -  This is not a supported configuration. (9.3) Support Status: Windows Server 2016 SAS® 9.4 TS1M5 and higher is supported on Windows Server 2016. For browser support, refer to Third-Party Software Requirements. Support Status: Windows Server 2019 SAS® 9.4 TS1M6 and higher is supported on Windows Server 2019. For browser support, refer to Third-Party Software Requirements. SAS ®  9.4 TS1M7 (9.4 M7) is the current release SAS 9.4 M7 was released on August 18, 2020. ... View more