I spend a lot of time on support.sas.com looking for resources to share. The SAS Programmer’s Bookshelf is a handy reference that’s been around for a while, so I asked “Why not a SAS Administrator’s Bookshelf?”
What would you include?
It’s complicated, of course, because the SAS administrator’s role covers a myriad of tasks. Throw into that mix, the fact that many individual software products have their own administration requirements, and you have quite a long list.
About a year ago, I published a post on SAS administrator connections and resources, and all this research made me realize it might be time to update that post with a few new items (noted with *).
Installation and configuration
You’ll find most of the information necessary to accomplish your tasks on these support.sas.com:
- System Requirements
- Install Center
- Third-Party Software Support
- System Administration topic in Samples & SAS Notes
- Migration Focus Area
- * Scalability and Performance Focus Area
- * Enterprise Management Integration Focus Area
Training and webinars
These SAS Talks archives are available on demand.
- * SAS® 9.4: What’s New for SAS® Administrators
- * Key Capabilities of SAS® Grid Computing
- SAS® 9.3 Features and Functionality for Platform Administration
- Best Practices in SAS® Administration
- Best Practices for Configuring Your IO Subsystem for SAS®9 Applications
And, of course, don't forget training and certification:
- * Courses and training paths – new courses for SAS Visual Analytics and middle tier
- SAS Global Certification program for platform administrators
Documentation and technical papers
The list of product documentation under SAS Intelligence Platform administration is a great start on the SAS Administrator’s Bookshelf, don’t you think?
- SAS Intelligence Platform administration – a list of related product documentation
- Administrator’s guides for installed products
Many of these papers are updated as new information is available, so check occasionally if you’ve used these resources:
- * SAS Technical Papers – Installation and Enterprise Administration
- * A list of papers useful for troubleshooting system performance problems SAS Global Forum, in particular the Systems Architecture and Administration section
- * SAS Global Forum proceedings SAS Global Forum, in particular the Systems Architecture and Administration section.
Connections through social media
There are several great options!
- SAS Deployment Community on support.sas.com
- LinkedIn groups such as SAS Administration Team & SAS Architects/Administrators/Implementation Specialist
- SAS Users administrators series
- The SAS Dummy
- Real BI for Real Users
- Lisa Horwitz' The IT Whisperer
- Paul Homes' platformadmin.com
- Andrew Ratcliffe's NOTE:
- Tricia Aanderud’s bi notes
I’m sure I’ve missed your favorite! Please share by commenting below.
4 Comments
This link gives 300 Systems Architecture and Administration links from SAS Global Forum 2013 and earlier:
http://www.lexjansen.com/cgi-bin/xsl_transform.php?x=ssa&s=SUGI_s&c=SUGI
In SAS Global Forum 2014 the proceedings were no longer catagorized in streams, so there the Systems Architecture and Administration papers are a bit harder to find.
Thank you, Lex!
A lot is missing in this as it mentions only what SAS knows.
As important as that is what does SAS not know, but is part of regulations business policies etc....
Going into related OS docs for scripting and configuration.
The backgrounds on what regulators have described and what is within then business policy
Questions from riskmanagers and auditors forcing you into their world with all kinds of technical monitoring and security procedures (SIEM hardening).
As with release management (infra and business apart) procedures and version management.
At least the hints to find some of those external resources should be mentioned somewhere.
Jaap . . .
You're right about the volume of collateral information needed in addition to what SAS provides. Thanks for your suggestions.
Christina