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Chapter 1: Congratulations, You’re the SAS Administrator! Now What??

Why a starter-admin book?

What the book will and won’t cover:

Why a starter-admin book?

SAS administration can be complex, maybe even frustrating at times. It might drive you crazy, but once you know the drill and once you have the right head start, you will see that it can, in fact, be fun (this is not sarcastic, I am serious).

Increasingly, I came to realize that many SAS administrators do not have the luxury of getting training. Often, they, are on their own and must figure things out by themselves. Talking to many advanced SAS admins throughout the years, they found that the most challenging part of becoming an admin was actually knowing how, and where, to get started.

An admin needs to understand the entire SAS environment. If the software that is licensed is not set up and not used properly, it pretty much defeats the purpose.

Once you have finished this book, you will be ready to go!

What the book will and won’t cover:

Some specific topics this book covers (and does not cover) include:

 SAS 9.4 administration in a single- or multi-machine metadata server environment.

 SAS SAS Viya administration is not covered. You can read up on SAS Viya administration here:SAS Viya 3.4 Administration: Orientationhttps://go.documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=calcdc&cdcVersion=3.4&docsetId=calchkcfg&docsetTarget=n00004saschecklist0000config.htm&locale=en

 Other SAS 9 versions might be called out in between, but this book is about SAS 9.4.

 This book applies to Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. Mainframe administration will not be covered.

 Product additions (SAS Grid, SAS Visual Analytics, etc.) and solutions (such as SAS Marketing Automation for example) are not part of this book. Even though additional products and solutions are not covered, here comes the kicker: even though you might have SAS solutions or, SAS Grid, or maybe SAS Visual Analytics, you still must know how to administer the underlying SAS system. So, no matter what, you are not getting around learning the basics of SAS administration.

Finally, there are a lot of useful links included in this book – not so useful if you have the print version! So all these links can be found in a pdf on my author page to save on typing!

And off we go ... Happy reading!