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SAS metadata server can be one of the following states Online Offline Administration Stopped This is not to confused with metadata server status. Metadata service status tell us whether the service is on or off. When the metadata service is on the metadata server can be in online, ofline , administration state. When the metadata services is off, the state will be stopped.  Among these 4 States usually we might have seen online or stopped. The offline and the administration state is used during special occasion.  Offline state is used to retain the active client but does not accept a new client. SAS automatically goes to offline mode when SAS tool is used to perform a backup.  Administration state retains active connection plus allows un-restricted user. Checking metadata state and metadata status: Metadata state is SAS related setting. It can be either checked in SAS management console or PROC METAOPERATE program. PROC METAOPERATE SERVER= “host name” PORT=port-number USE

In Linux / Unix OS we normally use sas.servers to start the services. The script in the background follows an order to start the services. It is important to follow the order to run the services correctly. In this post we can see what is the order to start / stop and to generate the sas.servers script. It is not really required to memorize the order because SAS provide an utility to create the sas.servers script automatically which will start / stop the service in order. Starting order SAS Metadata server Olap server SAS object spawner SAS / SHARE server SAS / connect spawner SAP table server SAP remote services SAS deployment tester server Stopping will be the same in reverse. How to create sas.server script? We can create sas.server script by using generate_boot_script.sh. if you have made any changes to your environment like adding a new server or spawner we can use the script to generate new sas.server. You can use the script even if you have removed the spanner o