Before You Install: Precautions and Required Permissions

Read SPD Server Pre-Installation and System Requirements Guide .

SPD Server 4.5 is distributed only as a 64-bit environment application for Solaris by Sun, AIX by IBM, Linux by SUSE or Red Hat, and HP-UX by Hewlett-Packard.

SAS recommends that you use a UNIX user ID other than root to run your production SPD Server environment. Although there are no known security or integrity problems with SPD Server 4.5, root access is not required to run SPD Server. After you correctly configure UNIX directory ownership and you set permissions on your LIBNAME domains, there is no real need or benefit for root access to SPD Server. For more information and a list of options to use when configuring SPD Server, seeNotes for SPD Server Administrators .

SAS recommends that you install SPD Server in a location that is adequately mirrored and backed up to assure reliability. The SPD Server installation location should use system space in which the SPD Server Administrator has full rights.

General familiarity with the UNIX language is required to install SPD Server 4.5. At a minimum, installers should be familiar with basic UNIX shell entities (such as sh, csh, and ksh), Bourne shell scripts, the UNIX tar command, and how to modify files using a UNIX text editor.

You need appropriate access permissions to create the installation directory for SPD Server on the file system where you install the server software. The owner of the SPD Server installation directory should be the UNIX user ID of the SPD Server administrator. For more information, seeNotes for SPD Server Administrators .

You need Write access to your server machine's /etc/inet/services or /etc/services file, if you want SPD Server clients to connect to the SPD Server host using name services instead of specifying port numbers at invocation. Name services require you to define registered ports that use the services file appropriate to your machine.

If your SPD Server clients access the SPD Server host using name services instead of specifying port numbers, you need Write access to the services files on the clients, in the path /etc/services or /etc/inet/services

Insert the WORKPATH= server option in your spdsserv.parm file. Use the WORKPATH= option to configure your server to use a high-performance file system. Ideally this system has RAID-structured volumes with sufficient disk space to accommodate the transient storage needs for Server. The spdsserv.parm file is located in the root directory of your SPD Server host installation. For more information about the WORKPATH= option and configuring servers for performance, see the SAS Scalable Performance Data (SPD) Server 4.5: User's Guide.