As a consultant working for multiple clients, having JBoss installed on a laptop is common to perform demonstrations or to develop SAS BI applications. JBoss can become flaky over time and be a source of frustration for local installations because the operating environment changes very frequently compared to a server environment. Digging through logs trying to find a direct answer to why a report link does not work or why a BI Dashboard indicator will not link properly is a huge headache. I have experienced instances where some web applications work and others do not. A simple configuration task can be performed to prevent a lot of these random issues – especially for mobile laptops which change environments frequently. It involves adding an additional JVM option to the scripts or batch files which start the web application server (JBoss) and the SAS Remote Services service. Binding JBoss The 9.3 Mid-Tier administration guide describes how to set the JGroups Bind Address for JBoss, Weblogic, and WebSphere. The JGroup Bind Address needs to be set for SAS Remote Services and JBoss (or whatever the mid-tier application server is). The bind address MUST be the same for both JBoss and SAS Remote […]
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SAS & JBoss: Too Many Open Files
I’ve been seeing some ‘Too many open files‘ exceptions in the SAS® mid-tier JBoss logs on my Ubuntu Linux server. I was surprised about this because I remember during installation I had followed the guidance in the SAS documentat…
Increasing the web timeout intervals
I’ve been spending my weekends developing a SAS Publishing book proposal. (For those interested, it involves learning how to fully leverage SAS Stored Processes as a beginning programmer.) Creating examples and jumping between coding, testing and then …
Need a place to put other Web Viewable Files?
What if you need someplace to store static files for web consumption. Things that might come to mind:
Images
HTML Static Title Pages
JavaScript
PDF Documentation (such as how-to instructions)
An ideal place would be a HTML server, since these aren’t ac…