AD13
Managing SAS Services: A System Administrator’s Guide to Enterprise Applications
Greg S Barnes Nelson, ThotWave Technologies

Enterprise software development activities usually involve robust management and monitoring tools that enable systems to run seamlessly and often without intervention. Over the past 25 years, SAS has evolved into a true enterprise-class suite of solutions . As companies turn to SAS software for solving critical business needs, those that manage these applications require mature tools and techniques to help ensure the stability of these environments. In this paper, we will discuss SAS from a systems admini stration perspective. That is, how can we manage the environment in which SAS operates. Here, we will discuss various methods for managing database, compute and web services in both a Microsoft Windows NT environment as well as UNIX environments. We will focus on how to start and stop services, techniques for monitoring systems and methodologies for how to do this in multi-tier environments. In addition, we will provide some guidance on approaches to managing the development, testing and production envir onments of large-scale SAS applications.