SAS Viya 3.4 Administration: Orientation

Documentation

This documentation supports administration of the SAS Viya 3.4 components of the SAS platform and the following products:

SAS Visual Analytics 8.3
SAS Visual Statistics 8.3
SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning 8.3

Other SAS Viya products supplement this documentation with their own product-specific administrative information, as needed.

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Note: As a convenience, this collection includes the deployment guides for SAS Viya: SAS Viya for Linux: Deployment Guide and SAS Viya for Windows: Deployment Guide. See also the SAS Viya Deployment Guides page on the SAS support site.

Deployment Types

Some SAS Viya administrative tasks and tools vary by deployment type. Here is a brief description of each type:

Deployment Type	Description
Full	Includes all of the software to which you are entitled. This is the default type of deployment.
Programming-only	Excludes SAS Drive, most graphical user interfaces, and most services. This is the simplest and smallest type of deployment. Note: If SAS Drive is available (at your equivalent of http://host/SASDrive), you do not have a programming-only deployment.

Deployment Type

Description

Full

Includes all of the software to which you are entitled. This is the default type of deployment.

Programming-only

Excludes SAS Drive, most graphical user interfaces, and most services. This is the simplest and smallest type of deployment.

Note: If SAS Drive is available (at your equivalent of http://host/SASDrive), you do not have a programming-only deployment.

For details, see Diagrams by Deployment Type in SAS Viya: Overview.

Note: The programming-only deployment type relies on a subset of SAS Viya components to provide programmatic access to SAS Cloud Analytic Services for high-performance analytical processing of in-memory data. Convenient for sites that choose to install and use a minimal subset of the software, the programming-only deployment type does not correspond to a limitation in software licensing or entitlement.

Administrative Tools

Here are the main administrative tools:

Tool	Deployment Type
Tool	Full	Programming-Only
SAS Environment Manager
Command-Line Interface
CAS Server Monitor

Routine Ongoing Tasks

Here is a summary of routine administrative tasks:

Task	Deployment Type		Multi-tenant Scope
Task	Full	Programming-Only	Provider-Level1	Intra-tenant2
View logs
Monitor services
Start and stop CAS
Update your software3
Renew your license
Create backups
Add caslibs
Manage access to data
Manage access to content
Manage access to functionality
Promote content
Assign users to custom groups
Manage mobile devices
Schedule and monitor jobs
Start and stop microservices		Not applicable4
Manage tenants
Docker Containers	Not applicable		Not applicable	Not applicable
1 These are the most common tasks that the provider in a multi-tenant deployment performs.
2 An administrator within a tenant can perform these tasks for that tenant.
3 See your deployment guide (for example, SAS Viya for Linux: Deployment Guide).
4 SAS Viya microservices are not installed on programming-only deployment types. However, you must still restart CAS and SAS Object Spawner.

SAS Viya 3.4 Administration: Orientation

Documentation

Deployment Types

Administrative Tools

Routine Ongoing Tasks

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