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Administering SAS Grid Manager

2h 11m + Hands-On Practice
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Administering SAS Grid Manager
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This course provides a comprehensive, hands‑on introduction to administering SAS Grid Manager. Participants learn how to monitor, tune, secure, and optimize the grid environment using the SAS Workload Orchestrator interfaces, SAS Environment Manager plug‑ins, and grid‑specific administrative utilities. The course covers job slots, queues, hosts, resources, user policies, multitenancy, high availability, and security—along with deep practical experience enabling grid functionality across SAS clients.

Through extensive practice activities, learners gain the operational knowledge required to support grid‑enabled workloads, troubleshoot execution issues, ensure reliable failover, and maintain a stable, performant grid environment.

Learn How To

  • Monitor workload, jobs, hosts, and services using the SAS Workload Orchestrator Web Interface.
  • Use the SAS Workload Orchestrator Administration Utility for configuration and diagnostics.
  • Administer and validate the SAS Workload Orchestrator Agent plug-in in SAS Environment Manager.
  • Deploy and use SAS Environment Manager Report Center for grid reporting and operational visibility.
  • Tune the grid using global options, slots, queues, resources, hosts, and user policies.
  • Configure high-availability behaviors, including active-active configurations.
  • Enable and manage multitenancy and grid option sets.
  • Apply grid security fundamentals including authentication and TLS configuration.
  • Prepare SAS clients for grid execution, including SASGSUB and grid-enabled SAS code.
  • Use SCAPROC to analyze code dependencies for distributed execution.
  • Configure and validate SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Data Integration Studio, and SAS Enterprise Miner for grid use.
  • Support job submission, restart, checkpointing, and interactive workloads.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for technical professionals responsible for administering and supporting SAS Grid Manager production environments. It is ideal for individuals who monitor, tune, secure, and optimize distributed SAS workloads across enterprise systems and multi-user environments.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should
  • Complete an introductory SAS Grid Manager overview course or have equivalent experience.
  • Have a basic understanding of SAS architecture and client tools.
  • Work comfortably with Linux system administration (services, processes, logs, networking basics).
  • Be familiar with distributed computing concepts.
  • Experience supporting enterprise SAS environments.
  • Have a basic understanding of authentication and security concepts (TLS, certificates).

SAS Products Covered

SAS Grid Manager

Course Outline

Understanding Grid
  • Types of grid machines.
  • Job lifecycle.
  • Practice: Job restart.
  • Batch, interactive, and load-balanced processing.
  • Batch processing with grid using SASGSUB.
  • Batch processing with grid scheduling.
  • Restart and checkpointing.
  • Interactive use of grid.
  • Interactive use of grid with SASGSUB.
Grid Monitoring and Administration
  • Grid monitoring and administration overview.
  • SAS Workload Orchestrator web interface.
  • Practice: SAS Workload Orchestrator web interface.
  • SAS Workload Orchestrator Administration Utility.
  • Practice: SAS Workload Orchestrator Administration Utility.
  • SAS Workload Orchestrator Agent Plug-in for SAS Environment Manager.
  • Practice: SAS Workload Orchestrator Agent Plug-in for SAS Environment Manager.
  • SAS Environment Manager report center.
Grid Provider Configuration
  • Global options overview.
  • Slots.
  • Practice: Job slots.
  • Practice: Grid performance tuning.
  • Queues.
  • Practice: Queues.
  • Resources
  • Practice: Resources.
  • Hosts.
  • Practice: Hosts.
  • Users.
  • Advanced features.
High Availability
  • High Availability introduction.
  • Impact on SAS deployments.
  • Accessing Grid applications.
  • Configuring High Availability services.
  • Practice: High Availability: Initial configuration.
  • Practice: High Availability: Active-Active configuration.
SAS and Grid Integration
  • Integration points.
  • Multitenancy.
  • Practice: SAS Grid integration: Setting grid options.
Grid Security
  • User authentication and authorization.
  • Authentication types.
  • Authentication types by client.
  • Network communication encryption.
  • Practice: Grid security: Basic authentication.
  • Practice: Grid security: TLS.
Grid Clients
  • Writing grid-enabled SAS code.
  • Practice: Grid client preparation.
  • Practice: SAS programming with grid.
  • The SCAPROC procedure.
  • Practice: SCAPROC for grid computing.
  • Using grid with SAS Enterprise Guide.
  • Practice: SAS Enterprise Guide with grid.
  • Using grid with SAS Data Integration Studio.
  • Practice: SAS Data Integration Studio with grid.
  • Using grid with SAS Enterprise Miner.
  • Practice: SAS Enterprise Miner with grid.