This course provides a comprehensive, hands‑on introduction to administering SAS® Grid Manager for Platform in a production environment. Learners will explore the full administration lifecycle: monitoring grid activity, tuning resources, configuring queues, managing hosts and users, enabling high availability, and integrating SAS client applications with the grid. The course includes deep coverage of the SAS Grid Manager Module, the Platform Agent plug‑in for SAS Environment Manager (EV), SAS Environment Manager’s reporting capabilities, and practical tuning options to optimize workloads across the grid.

Participants will work through realistic administrative scenarios—configuring high availability, reviewing slot and queue behavior, analyzing job lifecycles, and enabling grid capabilities in SAS programming clients such as Enterprise Guide, Data Integration Studio, and Enterprise Miner. By the end, learners will be equipped to administer, troubleshoot, and optimize a SAS grid in a busy multi‑user environment.