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SAS(R) Viya(R) Administration Fast Track
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...
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$2,400 USD
Course Code
SVFT43
Available Formats
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Overview
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.
Skills Gained
- 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 Can Benefit
- 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.
Course Details
Introduction to SAS Viya Administration
- Tasks of a SAS Viya administrator
- SAS Viya Application Architecture
Identity Management
- Understanding Identity Provider Options
- Custom Groups and Roles
- Managing UIDs and GIDs in SAS Viya
- User Authentication
CAS Data Management
- Caslib management
- CAS table state management
- CAS data loading
- Managing user-defined formats
Security
- SAS Viya Authorization Fundamentals
- Working with Security Rules
- General Authorization Precedence and Inheritance
- SAS Viya Content Folder Permissions
- CAS authorization precedence and inheritance
SAS Programming Run-time
- Administration of SAS Programming Run-time
- Compute Server Configuration
- Securing SAS Programming Run-time
- Connections to Library Data Sources
Managing Workloads
- Workload Management Administration Essentials
- Queue Configuration
Observability
- Observability for SAS Viya
- SAS Viya monitoring for Kubernetes
- Log monitoring
- Metric monitoring
- Auditing
Schedule
FAQ
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Classes typically include a 1-hour lunch break around midday. However, the exact break times and duration can vary depending on the specific class. Your instructor will provide detailed information at the start of the course.
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