IT ADMINISTRATOR

Platform Administrators are responsible for installing and maintaining their organization’s SAS computing infrastructure. Platform Administrators need to understand how to install, configure, and administer the SAS Intelligence Platform.

Technical Overview of the SAS®  Intelligence Platform Architecture

This course is designed for those who will be involved in administering the servers and applications in the SAS Intelligence architecture.

Learn how to:
explore the components of the server tier, the data tier, the Web tier, and the client tier.

Who should attend: SAS Intelligence platform administrators who want a technical overview of the components of the architecture

Level IV: Advanced

Duration: 1 day

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/paovr.html

Using SAS® Management Console to Administer SAS®9

This course is designed for those who need to administer their SAS®9 environment using SAS Management Console.

Learn how to:
set up SAS Management Console to interact with your metadata server(s)
use plug-ins to administer metadata and servers: Metadata Manager, Server Manager, User Manager, Data Library Manager, BI Manager, and Authorization Manager.

Who should attend: Anyone tasked with administering SAS, in particular, SAS metadata

Level IV: Advanced

Duration: 1.5 days

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/pamc.html

Accessing Data via the SAS® Intelligence Platform

This course is for those who will be involved in administering users, servers, and applications in the SAS Intelligence architecture.

Learn how to:

• describe how SAS servers access data
• connect to SAS data
• connect to RDBMS data
• assign data with the metadata LIBNAME engine
• describe how and when to pre-assign libraries.

Who should attend: Anyone tasked with making data available via the SAS Intelligence Platform

Level IV: Advanced

Duration: 2 days

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/lwpada.html

Authentication in the SAS®9 Intelligence Platform

This course is for those who will be involved in administering users, servers, and applications in the SAS Intelligence architecture. The course focuses on the key areas of initial authentication, identification, and additional authentication.

Learn how to:

• describe the process of authentication
• describe the process of identification
• determine when to create individual metadata identities and groups
• determine when to create new authentication domains and logins.

Who should attend: Anyone tasked with administering SAS, in particular, SAS metadata about users, groups, and authentication

Level IV: Advanced

Duration: 1 day

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/pasac.html

Authorization in the SAS®9 Intelligence Platform

This course is for those who will be involved in administering users, servers, and applications in the SAS Intelligence architecture. The course focuses on the key areas of authorization, metadata permissions, and securing metadata objects.

Learn how to:

• describe the process of authorization
• secure business intelligence objects
• use folders to secure metadata
• use access control templates to secure metadata.

Who should attend: Anyone tasked with administering SAS, in particular, security in the SAS metadata

Level IV: Advanced

Duration: 2 days

Learn more: support.sas.com/courses/pasaz.html