Have you ever wanted to restart a single SAS® web application without having to wait for the entire stack of SAS Web Application Servers to restart? Well, SAS Environment Manager provides the ability to do this, and I think that’s fantastic. I needed to restart the SAS Logon Manager several times the other day, and […]
Tag: Mid-Tier
SAS Management Console 9.3 Configuration Manager: Where did everything go?
When I first saw the Configuration Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console 9.3 I wondered where everything had gone! As you can see in the image below the list only contained four items! I was expecting to see a nice long list of items like there is in this screenshot from SAS 9.2 … Surely […]
SAS Deployment Manager 9.3
I noticed the user interface for the SAS® Deployment Manager 9.3 has changed slightly. Here is a screenshot from my “old” SAS 9.2 M3 installation: … and here’s the screenshot from my new SAS 9.3 installation: I’m guessing that the new hierarchical folder structure is going to allow for more tools to added. Interestingly there’s […]
Favourite Platform Admin Papers from SAS Global Forum 2011
These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2011. As a platform administrator and metadata fan I am obviously biased to a specific subset of papers. I’m sure there were many other great papers at the conference, but these are the ones that I liked the most based on my own interests. […]
Updated SAS Admin Docs (inc Portal Promotion)
I noticed that several of the SAS® platform administration documents have been updated recently following the release of the 4.3 versions of SAS Enterprise Guide and the various mid-tier web apps (SAS Information Delivery Portal, SAS Web Report Studio, SAS BI Dashboard etc.). The updated documents include: SAS® 9.2 Intelligence Platform System Administration Guide, Second […]
SAS 9.2 Mid Tier Support for Windows 2008 R2
To date I had avoided Windows 2008 R2 because, until recently, it was not supported for the SAS 9.2 Mid Tier. I had read in SAS Installation Note 36616: SAS® 9.1.3 Service Pack 4 and SAS® 9.2 support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 that support for 2008 R2 was coming with the release of the […]