In a previous post I’ve described a method for configuring Active Directory Authentication for SAS® on Linux (with realmd). One of the packages that’s installed is oddjob-mkhomedir. This package normally handles any requirement for auto-creating home directories for those AD users on Linux. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to get used by the SAS Object Spawner. I ran into this issue again today when logging into SAS Studio 4.2 as an AD user on the SAS Viya™ 3.2 platform. I wasn’t able to login because the AD user’s Linux home directory didn’t exist and hadn’t been auto created. After manually creating the home directory the login succeeded. I would rather get auto-creation working so I wouldn’t need to manually create home directories for each SAS user that was likely to use SAS Studio. Thankfully I was able to find a solution that I’ll describe in this post. Continue reading “Auto Creation of Linux Home Directories for SAS Users”
Month: April 2017
Nudging SAS Viya Services Timeout
I had been puzzling over why some SAS® Viya™ services were not starting on a machine reboot. Initially I thought the answer appeared in the SAS Viya 3.2 Administration documentation set: see the General Servers and Services: Troubleshooting section.
I found that all the expected services started after:
[root@hostname ~]# /etc/init.d/sas-viya-all-services stop
[root@hostname ~]# rm -f /opt/sas/viya/config/data/consul/checks/*
[root@hostname ~]# /etc/init.d/sas-viya-all-services start
[root@hostname ~]# /etc/init.d/sas-viya-all-services statusHowever, on further investigation it turned out that it probably wasn’t a problem with those consul/checks files. After another reboot I found that, once again, only a subset of the services had started. Using systemctl to check the status I found the following: Continue reading “Nudging SAS Viya Services Timeout”
Finding SAS Visual Analytics Reports that use a Table
“How do I list all of the SAS® Visual Analytics reports that use a particular SAS table?”
I was asked this question today and thought of at least 2 ways to answer it. The first is to build a query to use in the Metacoda Metadata Explorer Plug-in and the second is to use the SAS 9.4 Relationship Reporting tools. In this post I’ll show example for both techniques. Continue reading “Finding SAS Visual Analytics Reports that use a Table”