Controlling Access to Software within SAS Model Studio

SAS Model Studio consists of three software products:

• SAS Viya: Machine Learning
• SAS Visual Forecasting
• SAS Visual Text Analytics

SAS administrators can set up access to each software product in SAS Model Studio by creating user groups and defining which software the groups can access. Users in each group can access only the software to which their group has been added in the configuration for the Advanced Analytics Gateway service. The configuration properties have the following names:

• VML Group Identifier for access to SAS Viya: Machine Learning
• VF Group Identifier for access to SAS Visual Forecasting
• VTA Group Identifier for access to SAS Visual Text Analytics

Only one group can be added to any of these group identifiers. If there is no group added to one of the group identifiers, then anyone with access to SAS Viya can access that software.

If you make any changes to the user groups, the Analytics Gateway service must be restarted to pick up the changes.

Adding a user group to one of these group identifiers prevents users who are not in that group from using that software. For example, adding the user group Group1 to the configuration property VML Group Identifier prevents all users who are not in Group1 from using SAS Viya: Machine Learning. When users who are not in Group1 try to import or create a new project, only Text Analytics and Forecasting projects are available. If you define user groups for all three of the group identifiers, users who are not included in any of those groups cannot use SAS Model Studio.

Follow these steps to set up access to the software in SAS Model Studio.

1. Log in with your administrative credentials to SAS Viya.
2. Open the Users and Groups settings from the left side navigation .
3. Follow the steps in Create a New Custom Group in SAS Environment Manager: User’s Guide to create new groups.

   All existing users should be assigned to newly created user groups before assigning the group identifiers in the gateway configurations in the next steps.

4. Click the configuration icon in the left side navigation to open the Configuration page.
5. Select the Advanced Analytics Gateway service on the left side of the configuration page.
6. On the right side, find the sas.analytics.gateway configuration instance and click the edit icon to the right.

   The Edit sas.analytics.gateway Configuration window is opened.

7. Scroll down to find these configuration property fields:
   • VF Group Identifier
   • VML Group Identifier
   • VTA Group Identifier
8. Click for each software configuration property to add group names for access to each product. Add the ID for each group to the software to give each group access.
9. Save your changes.