Follow these steps to upgrade SAS Visual Analytics using the SAS Deployment Wizard
running in
update mode:
Note: Upgrading to SAS Visual Analytics
7.4 is supported for versions 6.2 and later.
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Properly back up your
existing system.
CAUTION:
The upgrade
process writes over the existing system. If any problems are encountered,
it might be necessary to recover the existing system from backup.
Keep in mind that your existing system can be corrupted to the point
of being unusable and unrecoverable.
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Understand how the SAS Deployment Wizard upgrades SAS software.
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Understand how your
SAS Visual Analytics deployment will change.
(In some releases, new
SAS products are added during upgrades.)
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If you are running SAS
Visual Analytics with a distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server, upgrade
your SAS High-Performance Analytics infrastructure
Note: SAS Visual Analytics 7.4
requires that you use SAS High-Performance Analytics environment 2.9
or higher.
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Prepare your SAS Visual
Analytics deployment.
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Locate and familiarize
yourself with your SAS software order.
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Upgrade SAS Visual Analytics.
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Perform any post-upgrade
deployment tasks.
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Validate your deployment.
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Before you begin using
SAS Visual Analytics, check to see whether there are any new groups
or capabilities that have been added to SAS metadata and whether any
new metadata properties need to be manually updated.
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Be sure to load your
data sources into SAS LASR Analytic Server to enable reporting and
exploration.