Overview of Creating and Configuring Publication Channels

SAS Decision Manager uses the SAS Publishing Framework to publish model updates to an operational environment for testing and production. The SAS Administrator creates and configures definitions for channels, content subscribers, and group subscribers. Then the user can use the SAS Decision Manager model extraction macros or user-written SAS code to retrieve and deploy the updated models to the operational environment.

As shown in the following figure, several tasks are necessary to configure and use the SAS Decision Manager publishing functionality.

Configuring SAS Decision Manager to Enable Publishing Models

Configuring SAS Decision Manager Publishing Models

Here are the tasks.

1	The application administrator creates either an archive or a WebDAV persistent storage location for channels that is accessible from the SAS Workspace Server.
2	The application administrator creates users, HTTP servers, content subscribers, and channels using SAS Management Console.
3	The application administrator or an advanced user publishes models using SAS Decision Manager.
4	The content subscriber (for example, Scoring personnel) receives an email notification from the server that contains a channel content update.
5	The content subscriber extracts models from a channel (for example, on a SAS Content Server) to prepare them for scoring.

Note: SAS Management Console Help provides details for your SAS Decision Manager publishing configuration options.

It is recommended that at first you use channels that have the Archive File type for the persistent storage option. This is the simplest channel definition and configuration to use to publish directly to your operational testing or production scoring servers. For example, during the installation of SAS Decision Manager, a channel that has a persistent store Archive File type is created. The channel is called MMChannel. For more information, see Create a New Channel.

Note: When the SAS Web Application Server and the SAS Workspace Server are located on different physical machines, the Software Deployment Wizard creates a directory on the SAS Web Application Server machine and uses that value for the App.ChannelDir property value. You must create a directory that is accessible by the SAS Workspace Server, and the SAS Decision Manager users must have permissions to that directory. For more information, see Modify an Existing Channel or Channels Node Location.

Last updated: February 22, 2017