SAS® Viya® Administration Fast Track
SVF : SVFT53
This course is a three-day immersion into a SAS Viya environment. This course provides essential topics for SAS Viya administration and demonstrates how to perform administration tasks using SAS Environment Manager and the sas-viya command-line interface to administer a SAS Viya environment.
Learn How To
- Use SAS Environment Manager and the sas-viya CLI to administer a SAS Viya environment.
- Administer programming run-time servers.
- Administer the Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) server.
- Manage CAS sessions.
- Access data in external databases.
- Manage users and groups in the SAS Viya environment.
- Integrate with an external identity management server.
- Manage credential domains in SAS Viya.
- Create and update credentials to an external server.
- Manage data and content that are used in the SAS Viya environment.
- Maintain security on SAS Viya content and functionality.
- Create and manage caslibs.
- Import data into the CAS server.
- Access data in external databases.
- Create a format library and import SAS 9.4 formats.
- Automate the refresh of data from a caslib.
- Manage SAS Viya content.
- Secure SAS Viya content and data.
- Understand the essentials of SAS Workload Management features.
- Troubleshoot general authorization and CAS authorization issues.
- Use general authorization rules to control access to SAS Viya applications.
- Get started using SAS Viya Monitoring for Kubernetes to observe a SAS Viya environment.
- Find and examine the logs of SAS Viya servers and services.
- Gather audit records to examine access to SAS Viya resources.
Who Should Attend
Administrators who support a SAS Viya environment
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have a working knowledge of Linux operating system commands. A working knowledge of Kubernetes is helpful but not required. This course addresses the SAS Viya platform.
SAS Products Covered
SAS Viya
Course Outline
Introduction to SAS Viya Administration
- Tasks of a SAS Viya administrator.
- SAS Viya application architecture.
- Understanding identity provider options.
- Custom groups and roles.
- Managing UIDs and GIDs in SAS Viya.
- User authentication.
- Caslib management.
- CAS table state management.
- CAS data loading.
- Managing user-defined formats.
- SAS Viya authorization fundamentals.
- Working with security rules.
- General authorization precedence and inheritance.
- SAS Viya content folder permissions.
- CAS authorization precedence and inheritance.
- Administration of SAS programming run-time.
- Compute Server configuration.
- Securing SAS programming run-time.
- Connections to library data sources.
- Workload Management administration essentials.
- Queue configuration.
- Observability for SAS Viya.
- SAS Viya monitoring for Kubernetes.
- Log monitoring.
- Metric monitoring for SAS Viya.
- Alerting.
- Auditing user activity.
Live Class Schedule
Duration: 21 hours
Step into our live classes and experience a dynamic learning environment where you can ask questions, share ideas, and connect with your instructor and classmates. With on-demand lab hours, you can explore the material at your own pace. Our globally acclaimed instructors will motivate you to think bigger, so you can take what you've learned and achieve your biggest goals.
Live Class Schedule
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09-12,15-16 DEC 2025
Live Web, US
1:00 PM-4:30 PM EST
English
2,400 USD
21-23,26-28 JAN 2026
Live Web, US
1:00 PM-4:30 PM EST
English
2,400 USD
23-27 FEB 2026
Live Web, US
9:30 AM-2:30 PM EST
Spanish
2,400 USD
18-20,23-25 MAR 2026
Live Web, US
1:00 PM-4:30 PM EDT
English
2,400 USD
22-26 JUN 2026
Live Web, US
10:30 AM-3:30 PM EDT
Spanish
2,400 USD
Private Training
Get training tailored specifically for your team, led by expert SAS instructors. Choose from virtual sessions, or training at your location (or ours). Perfect for teams seeking a customized curriculum and plenty of interaction with a SAS specialist. We'll schedule it at a time that works for you.
Mentoring Services
Take your training to the next level with personalized mentoring. While private training offers structured coursework, mentoring provides hands-on, real-time support from a subject matter expert. As you work with your own data, you'll receive expert guidance to help you uncover insights, unlock the full potential of your data, and make faster progress. Perfect for those looking to apply what they’ve learned and see quicker results.
This course helps prepare you to earn the following SAS Credentials:
- SAS Certified Specialist: Administration of SAS Viya
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