Paul Homes blogging on SAS® platform administration topics
A question that comes up regularly when demonstrating the Metacoda Activity Reviewer plug-in is “Can it be used to view/audit users access to SAS tables in a SAS 9 platform?”. I have recently shown that it can by making use of a standard SAS 9 logging feature.
Continue reading “Metacoda Activity Reviewer and Dataset Auditing”
In my previous post on Finding Interesting SAS 9 Loggers, I highlighted 3 loggers I find useful for SAS 9 metadata access control change auditing, especially when using the new Metacoda Plug-ins 6.2 Activity Reviewer. There is also a 4th logger where you might already have trace level logging enabled, as it is configured so when you set up the SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture Audit, Performance, and Measurement (APM) component. In this post I want to go into more detail on each of those 4 loggers and explain what information they log and why I find them useful.
The loggers in question are:
Continue reading “Interesting SAS 9 Metadata Server Access Control Loggers”
The latest release of Metacoda Plug-ins, version 6.2, is now available and includes a new Activity Reviewer plug-in which can be used to review SAS® 9 platform log records from within SAS Management Console for the purposes of audit.
This blog post provides an overview of how it came to be, how it works, and what you can do with it. Continue reading “Metacoda Activity Reviewer”
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 is a tip for those who use the Metacoda Security Plug-ins Batch Interface for scheduled automation of SAS® metadata security reporting, testing and identity synchronization. You will find this tip useful if you are using the same configuration values in multiple batch configuration or Identity Sync Profile (IDSP) XML files and would like a way to specify these values in a single places rather than maintain them in multiple locations.
An enhancement that was added in Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 (Feb 2020) included Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Replaceable Tokens”