SAS Analytics Platform Server :: Planning for Maintenance Releases and Product Upgrades for SAS(R) 9.2

Product Release Number

After you apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2, the product release number for the SAS Analytics Platform is 1.5_M3. For more information, see About the Deployment Summary.

Why You Must Restart the Server

After you apply a maintenance release, you must complete some post-configuration steps on several SAS products that use this server (such as SAS Enterprise Miner, SAS Forecast Server, and SAS Model Manager). In order for these SAS products to incorporate the changes from the maintenance release, you must restart the Analytics Platform Server.

Note: You must follow the specific instructions for your operating environment. If you do not complete these steps, then the software files are not updated properly.

Restarting in a Windows Environment

To restart the SAS Analytics Platform server in a Window environment, use one of these methods:

From the Start menu, select ProgramsSASSAS ConfigurationConfig-Lev<num>Analytics Platform Server - Start.
At a command prompt, navigate to the SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\AnalyticsPlatform directory and type AnalyticsPlatform.bat start.

Note: When you initially installed SAS, you might have selected Windows options: run as managed scripts or services in the SAS Deployment Wizard. If you selected this option, then the SAS Analytics Platform is run as a Windows Service. Generally, you can start the service by using the Services window. However, the first time you restart the server after installing a maintenance release, you must use either the Start menu or a command prompt. If you restart the server from the Services window, then the SAS Analytics Platform does not incorporate the updates in the maintenance release. After you have restarted the server from either the Start menu or at a command prompt once, the next time you restart the server you can again use the Services window.

Restarting in a UNIX Environment

To restart the SAS Analytics Platform server:

Verify that your X server is running and is available.
At the UNIX prompt, navigate to the directory where the SAS Analytics Platform server is configured. Usually, this directory is SAS-configuration-directory/Lev1/AnalyticsPlatform.
If the SAS Analytics Platform server is currently running, type ./AnalyticsPlatform.sh stop.
To start the SAS Analytics Platform server, type ./AnalyticsPlatform.sh start.