"Reviewing the Platform for SAS Business Analytics"

• Exploring the platform for SAS
• Business Analytics overview
• Exploring the client tier, middle tier, server tier, and data tier

Administering the SAS Environment

• Overview of administration tasks

Determining the State of the SAS Environment

• Checking the state of SAS servers
• Exploring the metadata server and repositories
• Troubleshooting the metadata server

Monitoring, Logging, and Troubleshooting SAS Servers

• Identifying different types of SAS servers
• Monitoring SAS servers and spawners
• Logging SAS servers and spawners
• Troubleshooting SAS servers

Backing Up the SAS Environment

• Backing up metadata with the Backup Wizard
• Exploring OMABAKUP
• Scheduling backups
• Backing up physical files

Administering Client Applications

• Exploring connection profiles
• Using roles to control access to application
• Functionality
• Exploring SAS folders

Administering Users

• Defining regular users and groups
• Defining administrative users
• Giving users access to servers

Administering Data Access

• Registering libraries
• Tables in the metadata
• Updating table metadata
• Pre-assigning libraries
• Troubleshooting data access

Securing Metadata

• Introduction to metadata security
• Exploring metadata permission
• Exploring predefined ACTs
• Securing content in the folder tree
• Securing content outside the folder tree
• Creating additional ACTs

Moving Metadata

• Replicating an entire repository
• Promoting selected content

Updating the SAS Environment

• Applying hot fixes to the SAS environment