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SAS® Forecast Analyst Workbench 5.2 (Distributed Mode)

Overview

SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench requires SAS® Demand Signal Repository. For more information, review the SAS Demand Signal Repository System Requirements.

Server-Tier Requirements

SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Server

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SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Server requires but does not include SAS Demand Signal Repository Server.

The following products are required by SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Server and included with SAS Demand Signal Repository:

  • two standard SAS/ACCESS engines of choice
  • three SAS Metadata Bridges of choice
  • SAS Data Integration Server
  • SAS Enterprise BI Server

SAS Financial Management is required but separately licensed with SAS Collaborative Planning Workbench.

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • Base SAS 9.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting 6.4

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 294 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Server includes a standard SAS/ACCESS engine of choice. Currently Hadoop is supported.

SAS LASR Analytic Server (Distributed Mode) on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS High-Performance Deployment for Hadoop 2.6
  • SAS High-Performance Node Installation 2.8

Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

SAS LASR Analytic Server Distributed mode requires Greenplum or Teradata (appliance obtained from vendor) or Hadoop (commodity hardware).

Apache Hadoop software is distributed with SAS software as a convenience. For support information, see http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/ApacheHadoopSupport.html.

SAS Data Servers

SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench contains a SAS data server, SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Data Server Configuration, which requires additional configuration.

The size of the data server is large.

Note: When you configure your software, the size of each data server must be considered.

Before you install, update, or add products and solutions that result in the deployment of one or more SAS data servers to the same machine, kernel parameter changes for shared memory and semaphores are required. For details about configuration of small, medium, and large data servers, see the section "Tuning the PostgreSQL Data Server" in the guide SAS 9.4 Web Applications: Tuning for Performance and Scalability, Second Edition. at http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intellplatform/tabs/admin94.html

SAS Metadata Server

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SAS makes the following recommendations for SAS Metadata Server deployments:

  • a 64-bit host system
  • a dedicated machine to simplify tuning, management, and diagnostics
  • multi-core server hardware because SAS Metadata Server is multi-threaded
  • four or more cores for production deployments

The disk I/O performance of any server-class system should be sufficient. Memory requirements are highly dependent on the product mix and usage, but 8 GB of RAM are sufficient for most large deployments. For many deployments, 4 GB of RAM are sufficient and should be considered a minimum, unless the specific deployment is tested and verified to require less memory.


Middle-Tier Requirements

SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Mid-Tiers

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SAS Visual Analytics Administration and Reporting Mid-Tier (Distributed) on Linux for x64

SAS Products installed on this machine:
  • SAS Visual Analytics Administrator 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Designer 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Graph Builder 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Hub 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Report Viewer 6.4
  • SAS Visual Analytics Services 6.4
  • SAS Visual Data Builder 6.4
  • Search Interface to SAS Content 3.3

Disk Space Consumed by Installed Products: 2068 MB
Supported Environments:
  • Oracle Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (64-bit version) on the x64 chip family

Web Application Servers

When you install your SAS solution software, SAS Deployment Manager installs and configures the required web application servers and web servers.

To install these servers, select one of the supported operating systems for the middle tier.

Note: These servers cannot be installed on the z/OS or 32-bit Windows platforms.


Client-Tier Requirements

SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Client

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SAS Forecast Analyst Workbench Client requires some components that are included with the separately licensed, but required, component SAS Demand Signal Repository.

Web Browsers

The list of Web browsers that SAS supports is updated as new products are tested and approved. For the latest information, visit the SAS 9.4 Support for Web Browsers and Plug-Ins page at http://support.sas.com/resources/thirdpartysupport/v94/browsers.html.


Third-Party Software

SAS software may be provided with certain third-party software, including but not limited to open-source software, which is licensed under its applicable third-party software license agreement. For license information about third-party software distributed with SAS software, refer to http://support.sas.com/thirdpartylicenses.

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