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Managing SAS v9.4 Metadata
Behind the scenes!
Joel Orr, System Engineering Division
November 20, 2014
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Agenda
Introduction
Overview of SAS Management Console
What’s new in v9.4
A few tips & tricks
Other SAS Administrator tools
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Introduction
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Link to the ‘what being a SAS Administrator feels
like’ video, herding cats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwJzTsb2QQ
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Overview of Management Console
What is it?
What does it do?
Why use it?
Who should use it?
How do you use it?
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What is SAS Management Console?
Java application
Single point of control
Administration of SAS Servers
Management of metadata objects
Framework of plug-ins
• Module to create & maintain metadata for specific
resource types
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What’s new in v9.4?
Support for clustered metadata servers
2 new metadata permissions
• ManageMemberMetadata
• ManageCredentialsMetadata
Metadata bound libraries interface
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A few tips & tricks
Manage groups rather than individual users
• Automate the importation of AD groups of users
• Nest AD groups under manually created higher level
groups
• Define object permissions and ACTs using the
manual groups
• Assign roles and specific permissions to groups
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A few tips & tricks
We can now export users, groups & roles
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Other SAS Administrator tools
A couple of additional plug-ins for SAS MC
• Active Directory User Import plug-in
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Actions | Import AD Users option
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Other SAS Administrator tools
A couple of additional plug-ins for SAS MC
• Active Directory User Import plug-in
• Metacoda Security plug-in
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Metacoda Security plug-in
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Other SAS Administrator tools
A couple of additional plug-ins for SAS MC
• Active Directory User Import plug-in
• Metacoda Security plug-in
SAS Environment Manager
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Other SAS Administrator tools
A couple of additional plug-ins for SAS MC
• Active Directory User Import plug-in
• Metacoda Security plug-in
SAS Environment Manager
On-line resources and blogs
• www.bi-notes.com
• www.platformadmin.com/blogs/paul
• http://support.sas.com
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Questions/Comments
Statistics Statistique
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Joel Orr Project Leader
System Engineering Division
Statistics Canada
Jean Talon Building 5 A7
170 Tunney’s Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ont., K1A 0T6
(613) 851-9259
Joel.Orr@statcan.gc.ca
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