Post-Installation Verification and Configuration of SAS Model Manager

After you install SAS 9.4 and SAS Model Manager 12.3 using SAS Software Depot, you must perform additional configuration steps before you can use SAS Model Manager.
  1. Verify that all installation and configuration steps in the instructions.html file have been completed. The instructions.html file is located in \sasconfigdir\Lev#\Documents\.
  2. The SAS Deployment Wizard does not create SAS Model Manager users by default. The SAS Administrator must create users in SAS Management Console with the appropriate group and role permissions. Verify that all users who were created during the installation process to use SAS Model Manager are granted the appropriate permissions to the SAS Workspace Server. In a Windows environment, each user or group must be granted permission to the Log on as a batch job local security policy. For more information, see Create Windows Operating System Accounts and Groups for Users of SAS Model Manager.
    In a UNIX environment all SAS Model Manager users must be part of a group that has the appropriate group permissions. For more information, see Creating Operating System Accounts in UNIX Environments and Configuring Users, Groups, and Roles.
  3. SAS Model Manager 12.3 on SAS 9.4 provides support for the use of multiple SAS Application Servers to be used when defining a performance task, a scoring task, or a model retrain task. If you want to use a SAS Application Server other than the default SASApp, you must configure the other SAS Application Server using SAS Management Console. For more information, see Configuring a SAS Application Server.
  4. If the SAS Workspace Server is located in a UNIX environment, you must enable the SAS Workspace Server XCMD option in order to support R model functionality. For more information, see Enabling the SAS Workspace Server XCMD Option.
  5. During installation, if you chose to perform a manual configuration of the SAS Model Manager database, or you chose a third-party database vendor that does not support automated creation of tables and loading of data, additional configuration steps are required. For more information, see Configure the SAS Model Manager Database .
  6. If the SAS Scoring Accelerator or SAS Model Manager In-Database Scoring Scripts products are a part of your SAS 9.4 deployment, additional configuration steps are required to prepare the database for publishing and scoring in SAS Model Manager. For more information, see Preparing a Database for Use with SAS Model Manager in SAS In-Database Products: Administrator's Guide.
  7. During installation and configuration of SAS 9.4, the SAS Deployment Wizard enables you to configure the SAS Web Server to use HTTPS and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates automatically. Verify that the Certificate Authority certificate is available to the trust store for the browser and Java clients. For more information, see the instructions.html file in the directory \SASConfigDir\Lev1\Documents, and the Setting Up Certificates for SAS Deployment in SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.
    If you did not use the SAS Deployment Wizard to configure the SAS Web Server to use HTTPS and SSL certificates, you can configure it manually. For more information, see Configuring SAS Web Server Manually for HTTPS in SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide.
    The communication path between SAS Web Server and SAS Web Application Server uses HTTP by default. If you configured the SAS Web Server to use HTTPS using the SAS Deployment Wizard, additional steps are required in order to use HTTPS between SAS Web Server and SAS Web Application Server. For more information, see Configuring SAS Web Application Server to Use HTTPS in SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide.
  8. Configure SAS Workflow. For more information, see Configuring SAS Workflow for Use with SAS Model Manager.
  9. Verify the configuration of the dashboard reports directory on the SAS Workspace Server. For more information, see Configuring the Dashboard Reports Directory.
  10. Configure the Model Manager Java Services Options. For more information, see Configuring Model Manager Java Services Options.
  11. If you have installed SAS Model Manager to use with SAS Enterprise Miner, you must access the SAS Content Server and create a public directory for SAS Enterprise Miner to register a model SAS package (SPK) file.
    To create a SAS Content Server public directory:
    1. Access the SAS Content Server Administration Console by entering http://hostname:port/SASContentServer/dircontents.jsp. An example of hostname:port is localhost:80. Log on using the SAS Administrator account (for example, sasadm@saspw) that you defined during the SAS installation process.
      Note: The default port for the SAS Web Server in a UNIX environment is 7980.
    2. In the Add folder field, enter a folder name such as Models.
    3. Click Add folder.
    4. The Models folder is displayed in the Item name column.
    5. Click the Permissions icon that is associated with the Models folder.
    6. In the Add principal field, enter the value jcr:all. Change all of the permissions to Yes.
    7. Click Save Changes.
    8. Log off from the SAS Content Server Administration Console and restart any open SAS Enterprise Miner sessions to pick up the changes.
  12. If you have installed SAS Model Manager to use with SAS Enterprise Miner, you must configure the SAS Metadata Repository to use the SAS Content Server public directory that you created previously.
    To configure the SAS Metadata Repository to use the SAS Content Server public directory:
    1. In SAS Management Console, expand Application Management on the Plug-ins tab. SAS Enterprise Miner should be listed and should contain subfolders.
    2. Expand the Projects folder.
    3. Right-click the SAS Workspace Server that is associated with your SAS Enterprise Miner installation, and select Properties. An example is SASApp - Logical Workspace Server.
    4. Click the Options tab.
    5. In the WebDAV URL field, enter http://hostname:port/SASContentServer/repository/default/Models/.
      Note: WebDAV is used to register a model SPK file from SAS Enterprise Miner.
    6. Click OK and then restart any open SAS Enterprise Miner sessions to pick up the changes.
For more information about post-installation tasks, see the SAS 9.4 installation documentation.
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