Paul Homes blogging on SAS® platform administration topics
After a recent installation of SAS 9.4 M8 I needed to refresh the SAS clients on a Windows installation. I did an Upgrade-in-Place (UIP) for those clients which updated my SAS Management Console 9.4 M7 installation to 9.4 M8. When I started SAS Management Console 9.4 M8 to test it I encountered the following error:
Clicking the Details button revealed more info: Continue reading “SAS Management Console 9.4 M8: omitoolsmc requested Woden”
One of the most requested features from Metacoda customers has been a way to review all SAS® libraries registered in metadata, to see if they have been specifically protected with access controls, and to filter the list by various attributes like libref, engine, pre-assigned status, assigned server etc. Of course, to also be able to export to CSV and HTML as with the other plug-ins. The recent Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R8 release adds a new Library Reviewer plug-in to assist with this.
The list of libraries is presented at the top of the screen and selecting a library will Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins: Library Reviewer”
This tip was prompted by a question from a Metacoda customer who, having seen a SAS® metadata object id in a log file (e.g. A53GCFFH.AP00001D), wanted to quickly identify what SAS metadata object that id referred to. As a Metacoda Plug-ins user they have access to the Metacoda Metadata Explorer plug-in which supports simple text based metadata searches as well as special-mode SAS XMLSELECT queries. These latter types of queries allow us to pinpoint the single object using this query:
{{{ *[@Id='A53GCFFH.AP00001D'] }}}Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Locate a Metadata Object By Id”
As mentioned in an earlier post, Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates, Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 also includes support for duplicating groups and roles in SAS metadata. This can be useful when you want to create a new group that is very similar to an existing group, or a role with a very similar set of capabilities as an existing role.
The ability to duplicate groups and roles in Metacoda Plug-ins is limited to unrestricted SAS administrators and restricted SAS user administrators (via membership of either of the standard SAS metadata server roles “Metadata Server: Unrestricted” or “Metadata Server: User Administration“. Continue reading “Duplicating or Copying SAS Groups and Roles”
As mentioned in my previous post, Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates, Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 also includes support for duplicating users in SAS metadata. Metacoda customers have often asked us for the ability to create a new user just like another user. Primarily, this is to give a new user the same, or similar, access as an existing user in the same job role. In a well set up SAS metadata security implementation, this is usually as simple as making them a member of the same groups and/or roles and that is one of the main aspects of this new duplicate-user feature. Continue reading “Duplicating or Copying SAS Users”