Validating Your SAS Visual Analytics Deployment

Here are suggestions of how you can validate your distributed SAS Visual Analytics deployment using SAS Home (the modern appearance). The SAS Visual Analytics documentation is available at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/va/.
Remember that a large part of SAS Visual Analytics is shipped with SAS solutions. Therefore, you can use this section to validate any part of SAS Visual Analytics that your SAS solution contains (usually every part except SAS Visual Analytics Explorer).
You might want to wait to validate your deployment after you have deployed both the server tier and middle tier. If you have deployed only the server tier, then some of the validation steps cannot be completed until you have deployed the middle tier.
Suggestions for SAS Visual Analytics Validation (Modern Home Page)
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Create an account for use later in the validation.
1. Use the SAS LASR Analytic Server installer account (sas) or create a new administrator account (such as saslasradm).
2. In SAS High-Performance Computing Management Console, create SSH keys. (SSH keys have already been created for the installer account.)
3. Assign the Windows user permission Log on as a batch job to the account.
Operating system documentation.
Create a SAS identity for use later in the validation.1
In SAS Management Console:
  1. Define a SAS Visual Analytics Administrator (use the account previously created (saslasradm)).
  2. Assign the administrator to the Visual Analytics Data Administrators group and the Visual Data Builder Administrators group.
  3. Give this user the necessary operating system permissions to write to the signature files location.
Add Users in SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions
Adjust Group or Role Membership in SAS Management Console: Guide to Users and Permissions
Operating system documentation
Validate that SAS Home is running and valid logins are accepted.
Sign on to SAS Home as saslasradm (for example,http://myHost.example.com/SASVisualAnalyticsHub).
Accessing SAS Visual Analytics in SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide
Start the Public LASR Analytic Server (to save a data query later in this topic)
On SAS Home:
1. Click the side menu icon side menu icon (next to SAS Home)
2. Click Administrator.
3. Select the check box next to the Public LASR Analytic Server.
4. Click the start button icon start button
Operating Your Servers in SAS Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide
Demonstrate that SAS Visual Analytics Administrator is functional and able to communicate with the SAS LASR Analytic Server.
In Visual Analytics Administrator:
1. Right-click Public LASR Analytic Server, and select Load a Table from the pop-up menu.
Load a Table in SAS Visual Analytics: Administration Guide
Demonstrate that SAS Visual Analytics Explorer is functional.2
On SAS Home:
1. Click Data Explorer.
2. On the SAS Visual Analytics Explorer window, click Select a Data Source.
3. On the Open Data Source window, select a data source in the list and click Open.
Create a New Exploration in SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide
Demonstrate that SAS Visual Data Builder is functional.1
On SAS Home:
1. Click Data Preparation.
2. In the SAS Visual Data Builder window, click Newthen selectData Query.
Creating Data Queries in SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide
Demonstrate that SAS Visual Analytics Designer is functional.
On SAS Home:
1. Click Report Designer.
2. Click the Data tab.
3. Click the the Options button in the Select a data source field.
The Add Data Source window is displayed.
4. Select one or more data sources that begin with VA_SAMPLE, and click Add.
Create a New Report in SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide
Demonstrate that the SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder is functional.
On SAS Home:
1. Click Report Designer.
2. On the Objects tab, click the Options button, and then select Show or Hide Objects.
3. In the Show or Hide Objects window, verify that Schedule Chart, Vector Plot, and Numeric Series Plot are displayed in the list. (These custom report objects are available only with the graph builder.)
Build a Custom Graph Object in SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide
Demonstrate that SAS Mobile BI is operable.
Deploy SAS Mobile BI.
View a SAS Visual Analytics report on a mobile device.
Viewing Reports on a Mobile Device in SAS Visual Analytics: User’s Guide
1SAS Visual Data Builder requires that a SAS identity be a member of the Visual Data Builder Administrators group. Members of the Visual Analytics Data Administrators group do not have access to SAS Visual Data Builder.
2Some SAS orders do not contain SAS Visual Analytics Explorer.
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Last updated: August 1, 2017