Pre-installation Steps

Complete the table below and then complete the pre-installation steps before running the SAS Deployment Wizard to install and configure SAS Micro Analytic Service 2.2.

During configuration, you are prompted for the location of your SAS installation data (SID) file. The SID file can be found in the sid_files directory of the SAS Software Depot or media. Copy the SID file to a permanent location that can be accessed from all middle-tier machines that run instances of SAS Micro Analytic Service. The license location should be entered as the fully qualified path to the SID file, including the filename of the SID file. For more information, see License Files for Clusters.

SAS Micro Analytic Service 2.2 supports database access. During configuration, you are prompted for database information, depending on the database type that you selected. SAS Micro Analytic Service supports SAS, DB2, Greenplum, Netezza, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Teradata. You can choose not to specify a database for data access by selecting No Database Data Access. For more information, see I/O.

The table below lists the information that you must obtain and have available before running the SAS Deployment Wizard.

Description	Default Value	Actual Value
Database Type	No database data access.
Database Host	Machine Host Name
Database Port	The default port for the database type.
Database User ID
Database Password
The following information is needed if SAS is chosen for data access:
SAS Library Name
Path to SAS Data
The following information is needed if Oracle is chosen for data access:
Oracle Default Schema Name
The following information is needed if SQL Server is chosen for data access:
SQL Server ODBC Data Source Name
Greenplum, PostgreSQL, DB2, Teradata, or Netezza
Database Name