Blogging about all things SAS

Within the SAS9 environment there are a number of key configuration files, which are unfortunately normally scattered all over the place.

These are some that you need to know about:

• C:\Program Files\SAS\SAS 9.1\sasv9.cfg
  Contains configuration information to be used when SAS is launched such as WORK and SASUSER directories

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\ObjectSpawner\OMRConfig.xml
  Contains information about the startup of the object spawner

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\omaconfig.xml
  Contains user information used when the metadata server initializes

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\sasv9.cfg
  Contains configuration information about SAS session startup

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\MetadataServer\Sasv9_MetadataServer.cfg
  Contains configuration information to be used when the SAS Metadata Server is launched such as OBJECTSERVER parameters and log file locations

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\appserver_autoexec.sas
  Contains SAS session startup commands that should be run at the start of session startup, included in autoexec_solutions.sas

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\ConnectServer\OMRConfig.xml
  Contains startup information used by the Connect Server upon initialization to retrieve the proper configuration information

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\ObjectSpawner\OMRConfig.xml
  Contains startup information used by the Object Spawner upon initialization to retrieve the proper configuration information

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\OLAPServer\sasv9_OLAPServer.cfg
  Contains SAS configuration parameters specific to the SAS OLAP Server and the sessions associated with the SAS OLAP Server

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\ShareServer\sasv9_ShareServer.cfg
  Contains SAS configuration parameters specific to the Share Server and the sessions associated with the Share Server

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\ShareServer\libraries.sas
  Contains initialization for the Share Server and library assignments that should be made accessible via the Share Server

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\ShareServer\startShareServer.sas
  Contains initialization Share Server startup commands

• C:\SAS\Config51\Lev1\SASMain\StoredProcessServer\sasv9_StorProcSrv.cfg
  Contains SAS configuration parameters specific to the SAS Stored Process Server and the sessions associated with the SAS Stored Process Server