This course is a four-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, the command-line interface, and basic Kubernetes commands to administer a SAS Viya environment.
The self-study e-learning includes:
Annotatable course notes in PDF format.
Virtual lab time to practice.
Learn How To
Use SAS Environment Manager and the sas-viya CLI to administer a SAS Viya environment.
Use basic Kubernetes commands to administer a SAS Viya environment.
Administer programming run-time servers.
Administer the Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) server.
Manage CAS sessions.
Determine the operational status of a SAS Viya environment.
Find the cadence and release version of a SAS Viya environment.
Perform the basic steps to update a SAS Viya deployment.
Run an ad hoc backup.
Manage scheduled backups.
Access data in external databases.
Start and stop SAS Viya servers and services.
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.
Back up a SAS Viya environment.
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.
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.
Find and examine the logs of SAS Viya servers and services.
Use Kubernetes logging and monitoring tools to examine a SAS Viya environment.
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 completed the SAS Viya Administration: Getting Started course or have a working knowledge of Linux operating system commands (or both). A working knowledge of Kubernetes is helpful but not required. This course addresses SAS Viya software.
SAS Products Covered
SAS Viya
Course Outline
Introduction to SAS Viya
Introduction to SAS Viya.
Tasks of a SAS Viya administrator.
SAS Viya architecture.
SAS and Kubernetes.SAS Viya Operations
Deploying and installing SAS Viya.
Updating SAS Viya.
Kubernetes.
Backup and recovery.
Operating SAS Viya servers and services.Identity Management
Managing identities and custom groups.
Host considerations for identities.
Authentication. Data and Caslib Management
Caslib management.
Managing data and formats.
CAS table state management.
CAS data loading.Security
Access to content and functionality.
CAS authorization.
General authorization system.Logging and Monitoring
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