I’ve just finished a challenging but very rewarding experience configuring a SAS 9.4 M2 platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), for both server and mid-tiers ….. without using Quest Authentication Services. The SAS platform has supported IWA on Linux since SAS 9.3 but until recently has only supported it when you “purchase, […]
Tag: Linux
Getting SAS Software running on CrunchBang Linux 64-bit
This is a follow-up to my prior post on Getting SAS® Software running on Arch Linux 64-bit. In my quest for a new Linux distro the next stop was CrunchBang Linux. I like the look of CrunchBang because it’s lightweight, based on Debian, and u…
Getting SAS Software running on Arch Linux 64-bit
Recently, I’ve been looking to switch from Ubuntu to an alternative distro as the primary Linux platform for our Metacoda development/testing environments, where we also run SAS® software. I’ve run quite a few distros in my time includ…
SAS Management Console over SSH
I was asked recently how to get SAS® Management Console to remotely access a SAS metadata server using SSH tunnels. In the absence of a VPN connection to your network, SSH can be an alternative for SAS Management Console access to a remote SAS met…
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…
Troubleshooting: sas.servers & hostname aliases
I ran into an interesting problem over the last few days with my SAS® 9.3 deployments on Linux. I had noticed that the sas.servers scripts for my Lev2 and Lev3 deployments were taking several minutes to start the SAS services. I know JBoss takes a…
Remapping the Super Key in Ubuntu..
One of my laments about switching over to Ubuntu on my Macbook was the placement of the Super Key and the Control Key. I’m so used to using the Command key for all of the keyboard shortcuts that the Control key just felt unnatural. There are a bunch of resources out there on the web […]
It’s that time of year…
Oh fall, the time of year when my work hours shift based to avoid morning gridlock that due to the elementary school drop off. This year is a bit different as I’m not one of the teachers anxiously awaiting a new crop of kids on the first day of school. That chapter is behind me […]