About the Installation Files

During the installation process, a Deployment Summary is saved in the SAS-installation-directory/InstallMisc/InstallLogs/ directory.

Note:   A Deployment Summary for each previous installation is saved in the home directory of the user ID that was used to install SAS. The Deployment Summary for the latest installation of the maintenance release is always available from SAS-installation-directory/InstallMisc/InstallLogs/.   

The Deployment Summary contains the following information:

• a list of the products that were installed and upgraded. For each product, there are two columns of release numbers.

  • The Installed column lists the product release number that was on your machine before applying the maintenance release.

  • The Updated column lists the product release number that is on your machine after applying the maintenance release.

  Here is an example of output that you might see in the Deployment Summary:

  

  For more information, see Understanding Product Release Numbers.

  For each product in the Deployment Summary, review the information in Product-Specific Updates and Post-Configuration Requirements to determine the configuration steps that are necessary for your site. If you do not complete these configuration steps, then you might experience unexpected behavior or errors that will affect the use of your SAS software.

• a log of whether each product update installed successfully.

  

  Use this log to verify that all of the updates in the maintenance release installed successfully. If you find any failures, then review the audit files for that product. For more information, see About the Audit Files for a Maintenance Release.

Audit files identify all of the changes that occurred during an installation of a maintenance release. The audit files list each file that was added, deleted, or replaced. All audit files are saved in the SAS-installation-directory/InstallMisc/InstallLogs/Maintenance directory.

For each SAS product that is updated in a maintenance release, there are two audit files:

• product-identification_preexec.log lists all of the files that will be updated when you install the maintenance release.

• product-identification_postexec.log lists all of the files that were updated when you installed the maintenance release.

In the filename, product-identification contains the 12-byte code of the SAS product that is associated with that audit file. To determine the name of the SAS product that is associated with a 12-byte code, you can generate a deployment registry report. For information about how to generate this report, see SAS Note 36394 at http://support.sas.com/kb/36/394.html.

This report lists all of the SAS 9.2 products that are installed in the SAS installation directory. For example, if your deployment includes SAS Web Report Studio 4.2, then this report would include the following entry:

Host: wx6
Product Code: citationweb
Version: 4.2
Display Name: SAS Web Report Studio
Display Version: 4.2_M1

From this entry, you can determine that a product code of citationweb represents SAS Web Report Studio, so any audit files with "citationweb" in the filename are for SAS Web Report Studio.

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