Migration Considerations for SAS Visual Analytics

Because of the many ways that you can customize SAS Visual Analytics, the automated SAS migration tools cannot fully migrate all user customizations. The following list describes actions that you might need to perform to complete your SAS Visual Analytics migration:

In most cases, signature file paths are not updated for existing SAS LASR Analytic Servers during migration.

Signature file paths are updated when you are migrating from a non-distributed to a distributed SAS LASR Analytic Server environment and SAS LASR Analytic Server non-distributed components are not in your order.
Migration for user-created SAS LASR Analytic Servers is only partially supported. After migration, you must specify their port numbers and any changes to the install paths or signature files paths.
The metadata labels for the two SAS LASR Analytic Servers created at installation remain the same. If these labels are to be changed in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4, you must do this manually.
SAS Visual Analytics 6.1 GeoMap data sets are replaced when migrating.
SAS LASR Analytic Server names are maintained. (The server names automatically created by the SAS Deployment Wizard include the host name. If you choose, you can easily change server names using SAS Management Console.)
A device limitation whitelist is new for SAS Visual Analytics after release 6.1. The previous SAS Visual Analytics 6.1 blacklist is migrated forward. When doing a SAS Visual Analytics migration, both the blacklist and the whitelist are migrated. When a database other than Postgres is used, special migration utility properties must be specified. For more information, see Product-Specific SAS Migration Utility Properties in SAS Intelligence Platform: Migration Guide.
During migration from SAS Visual Analytics 6.1, the metadata user groups Visual Analytics Admin Group and Visual Analytics Data Builder Group are renamed to Visual Analytics Admin and Visual Analytics Data Builder, respectively.
Java Virtual Machine (JVM) settings for SAS Visual Analytics web applications are not migrated from release 6.1. The JVM settings used in release 7.4 and later are the values supplied to the SAS Deployment Wizard during migration.

Last updated: August 1, 2017