This is a quick post to list a bunch of resources I found useful in understanding and deploying SAS® Viya® 4 on the Kubernetes platform: A Giraffe Taught me Kubernetes! SAS Viya Administration Documentation SAS Viya 4 Administration Resource Kit (ARK) …
Tag: SAS Installation
SAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) with LDAPS to Windows 2012 R2
I recently installed a local copy of SAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) in our Kubernetes lab environment and was trying to configure it to work with a test AD server, Windows 2012 R2. The AD server had been configured to only allow TLS (LDAPS) connections and so a…
Installing SAS Viya 4 (2021.1.2) Locally
I have been wanting to get SAS® Viya 4 running locally on our lab hardware to further investigate the REST APIs, and having just finished the installation, I thought I’d jot down a few notes. SAS Viya 4 has initially been released for the ma…
Checking a SAS Setinit/License in Metadata
When I apply a new SAS license (setinit) each year, sometime I forget to also update it in metadata. I might not even remember until I get an email from the SAS platform itself: From: SAS Platform Subject: SAS Product Expiration Notification To: Me You…
Active Directory Authentication for SAS on Linux (with realmd)
This is another post in the series about configuring a SAS platform on Linux to use Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), in this post I’m going to jot down some notes on steps 1-7 – configuring the Linux server for Active Directory (AD) Authentication. Some time has passed since I wrote the original post, and a […]
SAS Download Manager in Console Mode
SAS® 9.4 M3 is now available (as discussed by Andy Ratcliffe in his recent NOTE: blog post), so I’m downloading a new SAS depot using the SAS Download Manager. I’m downloading it onto a Linux server that happens to have X11 available, but I’m choosing to use console (text) mode, rather than the default X11 […]
Record, Rewind, Replay
Sometimes you find yourself wanting to repeat a SAS® software installation or deployment with the same, or slightly different, options. Perhaps you want to start an installation again after realizing that you chose a wrong option the first time ar…
Finding SAS Depot Release Numbers
Checking the detailed release number(s) for SAS® software in a depot is one of those things I do rarely enough that I have to look it up each time I need to do it. I know it’s in the depot somewhere, but I keep forgetting exactly where. This…