Deploying SAS Enterprise Miner in Single-User Mode

Install and Configure SAS Enterprise Miner Interactively

Installing and configuring SAS Enterprise Miner interactively with the SAS Deployment Wizard consists of two main phases:

Providing installation information such as the following:
- SAS installation directory name
- deployment plan
Providing configuration information such as the following:
- SAS configuration directory name
- required user account credentials

This topic describes most of the configuration pages that you encounter during the configuration phase of a SAS 9.2 deployment. The type and number of configuration-related pages you encounter depends on the deployment plan that you choose and the contents of your SAS 9.2 custom order. For information about all SAS Deployment Wizard prompts, see the online Help for the wizard page in question.

To install and configure SAS Enterprise Miner interactively, complete these steps:

The migration tools do not fully support the migration of single-user deployments, but you can follow steps to use SAS Enterprise Miner 5.2 and 5.3 projects in SAS Enterprise Miner 6.1. For more information, see the SAS Enterprise Miner: Migration Guide, available at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/miner/index.html.
Verify that you have performed the earlier required steps outlined in Prerequisites.
Log on to your Windows machine with a user ID that is a member of the Windows Administrators group.
If you have an earlier version of SAS Enterprise Miner installed, make sure that the SAS services in that earlier deployment are stopped and set to manual. For more information, see Previous Versions of SAS Enterprise Miner.
Open a Windows command prompt and start the SAS Deployment Wizard from the highest-level directory in your SAS Software Depot by using the following command:

setup.exe -record -deploy

Note: Using the -record -deploy options causes the wizard to create a response file that records the inputs that you supplied. This can be helpful when you want to repeat the deployment on other machines or you want to troubleshoot a deployment issue.

By default, the deployment wizard writes the response file in the following location:

C:\Documents and Settings\current-user\sdwresponse.properties

For information about how to play back a response file, see Playing Back a SAS Deployment Wizard Response File in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.

You should see a welcome page similar to the following:
Select the language that you want the SAS Deployment Wizard to use when it displays text.
Select Install SAS Software.
If you have more than one order in your SAS Software Depot, you will see a page that prompts you to choose the order that you want to use.
Select Perform a Planned Deployment, and make sure that Install SAS Software and Configure SAS Software are both checked.
On the Specify SAS Home page, enter the location (SAS Home) where you want to install SAS. If you have an earlier version of SAS Enterprise Miner on your machine, be sure to enter a different path here.

Note: The deployment wizard prompts you for SAS Home the first time that you run the wizard. On any subsequent sessions on this machine, the wizard uses the previously specified location for SAS Home.
Choose Select a standard deployment plan, and then choose one of the following plans:
- Enterprise Miner, one machine
- Enterprise Miner for Desktop, one machine
- Enterprise Miner and Text Miner, one machine
- Enterprise Miner for Desktop and Text Miner, one machine
- Data Mining for the Classroom, one machine
For more information about these deployment plans, see About SAS Deployment Plans.
By default, all products displayed will be installed.
Specify the location of the SAS installation data file that contains information about the software that you have licensed for the current machine.

CAUTION:
If you do not use the installation data file that supports the products you are planning to install and configure on this machine, you might experience errors later when you are trying to use the products.
Deselect any languages that you do not want SAS to support. By default, SAS attempts to support all languages that your machine's operating system is configured for.
On the Select User Account Mode page, choose Single-User Mode.

Note: When deploying SAS Enterprise Miner for the Desktop, the SAS Deployment Wizard automatically selects Single-User Mode and you do not see this wizard page.
On the Specify Configuration Information page, select the path where the SAS Deployment Wizard will write SAS configuration files and logs and the level you want to deploy (for example, Lev1 = production).

Note: The last digit of the default port number reflects the configuration level that you select in the SAS Deployment Wizard. For example, when you select Lev1, the default port for the metadata server is 8561. If you choose another level, such as Lev2, the wizard changes the default port to 8562.
For more information, see Overview of the Configuration Directory Structure in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
On the Local Machine Name page, enter the complete name of the local host in the Fully-qualified Local Host Name box. The fully qualified local host name typically takes the form of the local host name plus the domain name server (for example, myserver.example.com). Enter a short host name in the Short Local Host Name box. The short local host name is the abbreviated, more common method of referring to the host, usually only a single word.

Note: If your machine uses different names depending on the state of the network connection, then you should specify the short machine name in both the Fully-qualified Local Host Name and Short Local Host Name boxes.

This situation is common on laptops with wireless network connections. When the network is enabled, the machine name is fully qualified (for example, mymachine.example.com). When the laptop is running without a network connection, then the laptop machine name is the short local host name (for example, mymachine). SAS uses the value of Short Local Host Name for labeling purposes only and it is never used to do anything related to networking.
On the Single-User Account page, enter a Windows account that is known to the machine and is a member of the Windows Administrators group. (This is the account with which you will log on to the SAS 9.2 analytics clients that you are installing.)
On the E-mail Server page, enter the port and host name for an SMTP e-mail server that the SAS Metadata Server uses to send e-mail alerts to an administrator if journaling issues arise. The SAS Deployment Wizard also uses this e-mail server as the default for the SAS Application Server to provide e-mail services to various SAS clients.

Note: If you do not know the name of your SMTP e-mail server, or do not have such a server, then entering a dummy value enables the installation to continue. However, you will not receive e-mail notifications should your metadata server run low on disk space.

For more information, see Overview of Adding or Modifying E-Mail Settings for SAS Application Servers in the SAS Intelligence Platform: Application Server Administration Guide.
The SAS Deployment Wizard has finished collecting installation and configuration input. This is the last opportunity to go back and change any information you have provided on previous pages before the wizard begins writing to your system.

Make one of the following choices:
- Click Start to begin installing SAS files and writing the configuration to the current machine.
- Click Back to navigate to earlier wizard pages to change installation and configuration information previously entered.
- Click Cancel to terminate the wizard session. Note that you will lose installation and configuration information previously entered.
If this is a first-time SAS 9.2 deployment, the System Requirements Wizard runs and requires you to provide input.

This is the last interactive input required from you, unless a configuration error occurs.

When you see a page similar to the following, the SAS Deployment Wizard is finished:
Click Next.

The Additional Resources page lists several URLs that you can visit to obtain things such as technical support and product training.
Click Finish.

Your Web browser should appear. If you had any configuration errors, you should see ConfigurationErrors.html. Otherwise, you should see Instructions.html.
Proceed to the section, Review SAS Deployment Wizard Documents to examine the SAS Deployment Wizard output to troubleshoot any configuration errors and complete any necessary manual configuration steps.

Note: SAS requires that the installer account have the Windows user right Log on as batch job assigned. If this right is not assigned, then the SAS Deployment Wizard does it for you. Check Instructions.html to see whether the wizard assigned the Log on as a batch job right. If this assignment was made, then you must reboot your machine before using SAS Enterprise Miner.
When you are finished, be sure to back up your metadata repository and your SAS configuration directory before you perform any post-deployment wizard configuration.
- Make a backup copy of your SAS 9.2 configuration directories by using your site-approved method. Your SAS configuration directories are all the child directories beneath the path that you specified earlier in this procedure on the Specify Configuration Information wizard page.
- Back up your metadata repository and repository manager. For more information, see Best Practices for Backing Up and Restoring Your System in the SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
Be sure to restart any SAS Windows services that you stopped for purposes of creating a backup.

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