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What's New in the Pre-installation Checklists for the SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platform

SAS Intelligence Platform: Pre-installation Checklists is a companion to the SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide. The installation guide leads you step by step through the installation of the SAS Intelligence Platform and, in the course of doing so, has you complete a number of pre-installation checklists. In these checklists, you record information such as the user IDs for special SAS users and the installation locations of third-party products.

This document contains only the checklists, not the explanations of how to complete the checklists. For that, you use the SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide. We recommend that you use these generic checklists as an overview for the information that you will need to collect in planning for your enterprise system.

Note: These checklists are superseded by more complete and up-to-date checklists that can be found at: http://support.sas.com/installcenter/plans. This Web site also contains a corresponding deployment plan and an architectural diagram. [cautionend]

This document contains new material on the following SAS 9.2 enhancements:

New SAS Servers

There are three new SAS 9.2 servers:

SAS Content Server, a new WebDAV server that replaces Apache HTTP and Xythos
SAS Table Server
SAS Pooled Workspace Server

New SAS Deployment Tools

SAS 9.2 has new deployment tools:

SAS Download Manager enables you to download your SAS order by using a secure HTTP connection over the Internet.
SAS Deployment Wizard combines SAS installation and initial configuration into one wizard, replacing the SAS Software Navigator and the SAS Configuration Wizard.

Security Enhancements

SAS 9.2 has the following security enhancements:

Fewer operating system accounts are required to run SAS 9.2.
Internal accounts are new to SAS 9.2 and are used by default for some of the required users (such as sastrust and sasadm).
Integrated Windows authentication (IWA) provides single sign-on functionality for Windows desktop users.
You no longer have to manually grant the Windows user right Log on as a batch job to the sassrv user account. The SAS Deployment Wizard automatically does this for you.
On Windows platforms supported by SAS 9.2, the Windows permission Act as part of the operating system is no longer required for SAS server users or the Platform Suite for SAS administrator.

Deployment Enhancements

SAS 9.2 has the following deployment enhancements:

Automated, initial SAS configuration eliminates most post-installation manual configuration scripts.
Up-front user inputs enable you to avoid having to monitor the entire wizard session.
Installation includes an automated check for required third-party software.
An electronic product registration feature sends customer installation data to SAS in order to better assist customers if they call SAS with problems or questions. Electronic registration is optional and secure, and does not impact the licensing or use of the software. For more information, see:
http://support.sas.com/legaldocs/eregistration.html.
The initial SAS installation data file is contained within the SAS Software Depot.
Automated deployment is possible across multiple machines (capture-replay feature).
Space and time estimates are provided for SAS software depot creation.
You can create disc images of your SAS order, so that you can burn to CDs or DVDs at a later time.
On z/OS, you no longer need to define a SAS/C executable library to be program controlled.

SAS Port Changes

The following SAS port changes have been made:

A SAS Pooled Workspace Server port has been added: 8701.
A SAS Table Server port has been added: 2171.
Three new SAS Object Spawner port banks have been added: 8801, 8811, and 8821.
The SAS Remote Services Application port has been changed from 5099 to 5091.
The SAS Object Spawner load balancing port has been removed.
A metadata utilities SAS Workspace Server port has been added: 8591.
A SAS Deployment Tester Server port has been added: 10021.

In the November 2010 release of SAS 9.2, the following SAS port changes have been made:

The RMI port for the BI Portlets registry has been removed: 9000.
Three UDP ports for SAS Web Report Studio IP Scheduling have been added: 7570, 7571, and 7572.

Third-Party Software Port Changes

The following Platform LSF ports in the Platform Suite for SAS have been added or changed: 6878, 6881, 6882, 7869, 7870, 7871, 7872.

The following changes have been made to JBoss Web application server ports:

RMI ports for managed servers have been added: 1099, 1199, (additional managed servers increment by 100).
Listen ports for managed servers have been added: 8080, 8180, (additional managed servers increment by 100).
Secure listen ports for managed servers have been added: 8443, 8543, (additional managed servers increment by 100).

The following changes have been made to Oracle WebLogic Web application server ports:

A WebLogic Nodemanager port has been added: 5556.
Secure listen ports for managed servers have been added: 7002, 7102, (additional managed servers increment by 100).

The following changes have been made to IBM WebSphere Web application server ports:

A SOAP port for administrative console has been added: 8879.
SOAP ports for application servers have been added: 8880, 8881, (additional application servers increment by one).
Secure HTTPS port for administrative console has been added: 9043.
A non-secure HTTP port for administrative console has been added: 9060.
Secure HTTPS ports for application server administrative console have been added: 9044, 9045, (additional administrative consoles increment by one).
An RMI port for administrative console has been added: 9809.
RMI ports for application servers have been added: 9811, 9812, (additional application servers increment by one).

In the November 2009 release of SAS 9.2, the IBM WebSphere Portal Server listening port 10040 was added.

Changes to Groups for Third-Party Software

In the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, for UNIX and z/OS it is recommended that the SAS Installer and the WebSphere Application Server installer be in the same operating system group in order to have the necessary permissions for writing to installation directories.

Documentation Enhancement

In the November 2010 release of SAS 9.2, the data direction for SAS and required third-party software ports was documented.

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