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Administering SAS® Grid Manager for Platform

1h 51m + Hands-On Practice
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Administering SAS® Grid Manager for Platform
GRDPA : GRDPA1
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.

Learn How To

  • Navigate the SAS Grid Manager Module for monitoring, control, and job visibility.
  • Use the SAS Grid Manager for Platform Agent plug-in within SAS Environment Manager to monitor hosts, jobs, and services.
  • Deploy and manage SAS Environment Manager (ESM) reports and dashboards.
  • Tune grid environments using global options, slots, queues, resources, hosts, and user configurations.
  • Understand and configure high-availability components, including active-active and failover scenarios.
  • Identify and manage integration points across SAS applications and services.
  • Configure multitenancy behaviors and grid option sets.
  • Prepare SAS clients for grid submission workflows.
  • Enable and troubleshoot SASGSUB, SCAPROC, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Data Integration Studio, and SAS Enterprise Miner for grid execution.
  • Manage the job lifecycle, including submission, monitoring, restart, checkpoint, and load-balanced behaviors.
  • Support users across batch, interactive, and load-balanced job execution paths.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for technical professionals responsible for administering and supporting SAS® Grid Manager for Platform in production environments. It is best suited for individuals who manage multi-user SAS deployments and need to monitor, tune, optimize, and troubleshoot grid operations across enterprise systems.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should
  • Complete (or have equivalent experience to complete) installing and configuring SAS Grid Manager for Platform.
  • Have a working knowledge of Platform LSF basics (hosts, queues, jobs, and simple troubleshooting).
  • Be familiar with the basic SAS platform framework (SAS clients, metadata concepts, and common SAS services).
  • Work comfortably with Linux/UNIX system administration (services, logs, permissions, networking basics).
  • Be familiar with SAS Environment Manager (navigation, monitoring concepts, reporting basics).
  • Have a basic understanding of batch vs. interactive execution and how SAS jobs run in shared environments.
  • Complete a course on installing and configuring SAS Grid Manager for Platform (or some equivalent experience).

SAS Products Covered

SAS Grid Manager for Platform

Course Outline

Understanding Grid
  • Types of grid machines.
  • Practice: SASGSUB.
  • Job lifecycle.
  • Batch or interactive or load balanced.
  • Practice: Job restart.
  • Practice: Checkpoint restart.
  • Batch use of grid SASGSUB.
  • Batch use of grid scheduling.
  • Restart and checkpoint.
  • Interactive use of grid.
  • Interactive use of grid SASGSUB.
Grid Monitoring and Administration
  • Grid monitoring and administration overview.
  • SAS Grid Manager module.
  • Practice: Grid Manager module.
  • SAS Grid Manager for Platform agent plug-in for SAS EV.
  • Practice: Grid Manager for Platform agent plug-in.
  • SAS Environment Manager Report Center.
  • Practice: Deploy SAS ESM.
Grid Provider Configuration
  • Introduction and global options.
  • Practice: Grid tuning.
  • Slots.
  • Queues.
  • Practice: Queues.
  • Resources.
  • Hosts.
  • Users.
High Availability
  • High availability introduction.
  • Impact on SAS deployments.
  • Accessing the applications.
  • Configuring high availability services.
  • Practice: High availability: initial configuration.
  • Practice: High availability: Active-Active.
SAS and Grid Integration
  • Integration points.
  • Multitenancy.
  • Practice: SAS Grid integration, grid options set.
Grid Clients
  • Writing grid-enabled SAS code.
  • Practice: Grid clients preparation.
  • Practice: SAS programming with grid.
  • The SCAPROC procedure.
  • Practice: SCAPROC for grid computing
  • SAS Enterprise Guide.
  • Practice: SAS Enterprise Guide with grid.
  • SAS data integration.