Using This Book

Audience

This book documents the installation and initial configuration of SAS Visual Analytics for a distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server on an analytics cluster for a traditional, on-premises deployments. For information about SAS Visual Analytics in the cloud, see SAS Cloud documentation.
For documentation about installing and configuring SAS Visual Analytics for a non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server, see the SAS Visual Analytics: Installation and Configuration Guide (Non-distributed SAS LASR).
This book covers tasks that are required after you and your SAS representative have decided what software you need and on what machines you will install the software. At this point, you can begin performing some pre-installation tasks, such as creating operating system user accounts and designating the ports that you will use during installation.
Unless you are deploying a non-distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server, you will also need to refer to the SAS High-Performance Analytics Infrastructure: Installation and Configuration Guide.

Documentation Conventions

SAS Installation Directory

The phrase SAS installation directory refers to a host path. (The SAS installation directory is sometimes referred to as SAS Home.) For example, C:\Program Files\SASHome.

SAS Configuration Directory

The phrase SAS configuration directory refers to a host path that includes a configuration name and level. For example, C:\SAS\Config\Lev1.
For more information, see the topic, Overview of the Configuration Directory Structure in SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.
Last updated: August 1, 2017