Tag: SAS Viya 3

Auto Creation of Linux Home Directories for SAS Users

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”

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 status

However, 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”