I was lucky enough to sit though a presentation from CBA at the SAS Fourm in Sydney last month that described a set of tools they had created to manage their SAS enviornment and specifically the SAS processes that were running on their servers.

I know of a few other large SAS sites that have built there own custom administration tools to help automate the administration of their SAS environments.

When talking to the smaller SAS sites they do not have the development time to build an equivalent solution specifically for their site, and there is not a lot of out-of-the-box capability from SAS.

So of course we thought tada opportunity for some SaasInct magic!

We have been working on a set fo utilities that will help SAS sites manage their SAS processes.  The first two components are:

• A server side admin script
• An Enteprise Guide addin

We are beta testing them at the moment, but they are designed to enable rouge SAS processes to be killed automatically by the admin script based on some parameters (i.e SS processes running for 4 days or more and of course exclude server processes such as object spawners etc).

It also allows EG users to kill their own processes via an EG plugin.  This removes the ned for users to have to ring a admin person to kill them when they have exited (in a not very nice way) from EG on their PC and the process is still running on the server.

EG Rogue SAS Session Kill - Addin

And importantly they can only see and kill their own processes:

EG Rogue SAS Session Kill - Running Processes

We are thinking about adding a monitoring and kill portlet (maybe useful for admin’s?) and a DI Studio addin.

Will post when it is all up on the site for sale of course ;-)