Dear SAS Community, In my company, we have installed on our server SAS 9.4 version TS1M0. We now want to upgrade from version TS1M0 to version TS1M8 on new server. Unfortunatelly, our current version - SAS 9.4 TS1M0 was installed a long time ago in in a very vague and incomprehensible way, and we still try out best to understand how it was installed and where are the right paths to every thing in the installation. Anyway, For the upgrading process, we need to migrate two things: 1. Metadata 2. Data Now, for the data part, we simply going to copy all the files from the old software to the new one. For the metadata part, it seems that the location of the metadata on the server is ambiguous, and we don't really know where it's at. The problem is that we don't have a metadata server, and probably all out metadata is stored locally. We tried to look up for the metadata in all of our SAS installation folders, and unfortunatelly didn't find any. it was suggested to use the SAS Management Console to export the metadata in .spk files to the new server. after logging in to the SAS Mangement Console, we were asked to create a connection profile which will be connected to the metadata server of our SAS software. Unfortunatelly, as mentioned, we probably don't have metadata server. We tried to connect the connection profile to the local machine (we tried to put in the host field the local host IP - 127.0.0.1 or even the IP of the server) with port 8561, but all the time we get the following error: "Connection refused: connect. The application could not log to the server "XXX.XXX.XXX.XX:8561. No server is available at that port on that machine." Therefore, dear SAS community, we have couple of questions that we hope you guys can answer: 1. Where can the metadata be stored locally? 2. Is there a way to check if we have a metadata server, which our software is connected to? 3. Is it possible to solve the error of the SAS Management Console conncetion profile that was mentioned above? 4. Is it possible that we don't even have metadata stored anywhere, and that our software uses other ways to function? 5. Are there any other ways besides SAS Management Console to transfer metadata from an old version to a new one? 6. If you have any other suggestions, and things to say - it is welcome! Thank you very much!
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