I think so. I always ask for a real time scan suspension during all the upgrade, mainly for performance impacts. ... View more

Hi! This is what is put in sas.service, it's working but I'm sure I need to refine it (Requires, WantedBy)   [Unit] Description=SAS Services Requires=network.target [Service] User=sasinst Group=sas ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/sas/SAS_lsm/SAS_lsm -c /sas/SAS_lsm/va.cfg -a 1 -e' ExecStop=/bin/bash -c '/sas/SAS_lsm/SAS_lsm -c /sas/SAS_lsm/va.cfg -o 1 -e' RemainAfterExit=Yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target   " RemainAfterExit=Yes " was tricky to find. Had to work a lot with  Any improvements are wellcome! 🙂 ... View more

DBDTST1Q (test above) and DBDTST (last ping) are equally defined? ... View more

To me it looks related to the entry in tnsnames.ora . Does TNSPING work?  ... View more

Hi!  You can customize this to your needs: SAS Help Center: About the Sample Code for Active Directory     ... View more

Saved me hours of work and buckets of tears. Thanks again for sharing! ... View more

I feel it, I've found a number of customers installs with logins in General Servers. I tend to move them in dedicated selfnamed groups, then add the SAS General Servers as a member. ... View more

I'd try a programmatic approach, i.e. to extract all the logins to check in which group/user it's in. I'm huge fan of Metacoda/ @PaulHomes work: %metacodaIdentityLoginExtract - Metacoda Identity Sync Utilities is a great tool code I'm always gratefull he shared.   It happened I had to do it manually, but in very simple installations....  ... View more

Have you got any ACCESS module installed? The path is similar even you haven't one, this blog post could be usefull: Connecting SAS to a DB2 database via ODBC without tears - SAS Users .   ... View more

...Brilliant! ... View more

AFAIK there's nothing working Out o the Box. For a similar audit activity, I put together some code to get users list, creation and last update dates from Metadata, and parse the Metadata server logs to get the last access timestamp. Never gone farther with groups. ... View more

delete the hostname from shots...! ... View more

Hi Deva,  there's not such public documentation, at least not a "complete" one. Best practices are always the same: full "cold" backup, and procede by layers: upgrade LSF, then BackEnds (Meta and Compute tiers) and lastly FrontEnd (Web tier). ... View more

Ciao Marco,  IMHO a total reinstall is way better than fix this. ... View more

I migrated a (**bleep** old) TS1M0 that was installed like a V8, so no MetadataServer, just a sort-of Connect Spawner to get remote sessions. It can be tricky to move from that to M8. I'd follow @SASKiwi  advice and reach out SAS TCS or a Partner.  ... View more