Top 10 SAS Viya Administration Tasks

In this video, David Stern of SAS presents his top 10 SAS Viya administration tasks. These are taken from a paper which every administrator of a SAS Viya deployment should see: the Checklist of SAS Viya Administration Tasks.

David Stern has been at SAS for over 10 years and focuses on SAS administration, primarily authorization and migrations.

Content Outline
00:00 – Top 10 SAS Viya Administration Tasks
01:26 – 10: Mirror repositories and updates
02:20 – 9: Licenses and certificates
02:55 – 8: Monitoring
04:19 – 7: SAS Work directory
05:15 – 6: Users and security model
06:43 – 5: Move content between deployments
07:25 – 4: Backup
08:43 – 3: Logs
09:22 – 2: Start and stop SAS Viya services
13:33 – 1: Regular task schedule

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Example commands to clone the SAS Viya Administration Resource Kit:
mkdir ~/working
cd ~/working
BRANCH_TO_USE=master
git clone $GIT_REPO --branch $BRANCH_TO_USE
#remove old versions
rm -rf ~/sas_viya_playbook/viya-ark
# copy into the right playbook location
cp -r ~/working/viya-ark ~/sas_viya_playbook
ls -al ~/sas_viya_playbook/viya-ark/playbooks/viya-mmsu/viya-services-*
# Optional: delete leftovers
rm -rf ~/working
cd ~/sas_viya_playbook

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