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

Related Resource
Checklist of SAS Viya Administration Tasks - https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/checklist-sas-viya-administration-tasks.pdf
SAS Viya Hot Fix Availability - http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/Viya_home.html
SAS Hot Fix Announcements on SAS Communities - https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Hot-Fix-Announcements/bg-p/hf
SAS Product Release Announcements on SAS Communities - https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Product-Release/bg-p/tsrelease
SAS Viya Administration Resource Kit (SAS Viya ARK) on GitHub - https://github.com/sassoftware/viya-ark
SAS Administration Command-Line Interface - https://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=calcli&docsetTarget=n01xwtcatlinzrn1gztsglukb34a.htm&docsetVersion=3.5&locale=en
SAS Developer Home - https://developer.sas.com/
pyviyatools on GitHub - https://github.com/sassoftware/pyviyatools

Example commands to clone the SAS Viya Administration Resource Kit:
mkdir ~/working
cd ~/working
GIT_REPO=https://github.com/sassoftware/viya-ark.git
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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