Prerequisites

You must satisfy the following prerequisites in order to use the SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data 2.2:
  • Integration with any SAS Customer Intelligence products (such as SAS Web Analytics, SAS Digital Marketing, or SAS Real-Time Decision Manager) requires that those products are installed and their prerequisites satisfied.
  • All prerequisites for SAS Data Integration Studio 4.21 must be satisfied.
  • You must understand how to create jobs and manage process flows in SAS Data Integration Studio.
  • An administrator must have installed the SAS clickstream components that are described in the following table.
The following Clickstream components can be installed from the SAS Deployment Wizard:
Clickstream Components in the SAS Deployment Wizard
Installation Location
Description
Where Components Are Installed
SERVER
SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data Server Components. Consists of one or more Application Server contexts that include macros and other server components required to execute clickstream jobs (jobs that include Clickstream transformations). We recommend that you configure these servers to support Unicode processing. See Using a Unicode SAS Application Server.
On all SAS 9.2 Application Servers that execute clickstream jobs.
CLIENT
SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data Plug-ins. Includes transformations that are required to build clickstream jobs. For more information, see Clickstream Transformations in Part 5: Clickstream Transformations.
On all computers where you want to use SAS Data Integration Studio to build clickstream jobs.
METADATA SERVER
SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data Metadata: Includes tutorial and template jobs and other components that are required to build clickstream jobs. For more information, see Part 3: Processing Data Using Template Jobs.
On the SAS Metadata Server.
MID-TIER
SAS Data Surveyor for Clickstream Data Mid-Tier.
Updates an existing Apache Web server to become the clickstream collection server. Any pages that are instrumented with the SAS page tag will record Web site visitor activity to this server. For more information, see Preparing the Clickstream Collection Server.
On a computer where an Apache HTTP Server has already been installed.