Tag: Logging

Suppressing SAS Workspace Server MVA_DSIO.OPEN_CLOSE and _DISARM Messages

This is just a very quick post to jot down the location of a SAS reference that I keep losing! I have the SAS Audit, Performance and Measurement (APM) package installed in my older SAS 9.4 M0 dev/test environment. The APM package is now deprecated as the functionality has moved into SAS Environment Manager (from … Continue reading “Suppressing SAS Workspace Server MVA_DSIO.OPEN_CLOSE and _DISARM Messages”

SAS & IWA: Check the Logs

When testing Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) based client connections to SAS® platform servers, it is well worth checking the SAS logs to verify the connections are being made the way you expect. SAS has a variety of methods up it’s …

Dynamic Logging Reconfiguration in SAS® 9.3

One of the exciting new features in SAS 9.3 (well for me anyway) is the ability to replace or modify the logging configuration on-the-fly for a running server without needing to restart it. Previously in SAS 9.2 you could dynamically change the levels …

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…

Which logger did that SAS log message come from?

Occasionally you might want to generate a custom SAS log file, perhaps to be parsed and analysed to generate a custom report. You want to focus on a specific subset of messages and already know that you can modify the logging configuration file and attach the logger that generates the message to an appender to […]