Below are the top 10 checklist jobs to be performed for a SAS Administration
1. Administration schedule
- Design and maintain a schedule of SAS platform administration activities
- Specify when regular housekeeping tasks should be performed
- Follow the schedule to keep your system running efficiently
- Define backup and recovery strategy
- It should describe:
- Which components of SAS Platform should be backed up
- How frequently
- How long backups should be retained and where
- Seems simple, but can be complex in multi-machine deployments
- System state is stored in multi places
- Must backup and restore synchronously to keep system state consistent
- You can use SAS Deployment Backup and Recovery Tool
3. Linceses
- Learn how to apply new licence files "http://support.sas.com/techsup/license/"
- Document the steps for your specific SAS deployment
- You may have several separate licensed components
- Their licenses may not all expire on the same date
- Allow enough time to renew licenses before they run out
4.Archive and delete log files
- Write your own scripts to archive(zip) and delete log files
- Run those scripts regularly, e.g. nightly
- Example scheme:
Archive logs after 7 days Delete archived logs after 30 days
- Some servers have to be restarted to rotate their log file
5. Relocate SAS Work
- Linux: SAS work default= /tmp
- Cleaned up periodically by OS
- May be on root partition - filling it is bad
- Windows : SAS work default= user's home directory
- Choose better location with sufficient space, on filesystem which is optimized for expected workload, e.g. large sequential read and write
6. Clean up SAS Work
- Delete SAS Work directories left by abruptly-terminated SAS workspace sessions
- Unix:SAS Cleanwork utility
- Windows:SAS Disk cleanup handler
- http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2014/05/14/finding-and-deleting-orphaned-sas-work-and-sas-utility-directories/
- Run it regularly,e.g. Weekly
7. Security Model
- Design and maintain security model
- Implements a security policy
- Use groups to manage access to:
- Metadata
- Data
- Application functionality
- Determine how users and groups are:
- Added
- Updated
- Removed
8. Filesystem Access controls
- Secure files and directories in addition to metadata
- Prevent unauthorized read or writes access
9. Monitoring
- SAS Environment Manger
- Third party monitoring solution
- Your own custom tools or scripts
- Record time series data
- Set up alerts
- Monitor Jobs and Queries
10. Hotfixes
- Maintenance release
- Hotfixes
- Announcements
- Support notes
Reference:
- https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Hot-Fix-Announcements/bg-p/hf
- http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/hotfix.html
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