Usage Note 31182: How to install the SAS® BI Lineage Plug-in
The SAS BI Lineage Plug-in for the SAS® Management Console will scan your repository and determine the connections between found reports, maps, tables, cubes, and stored processes. The plug-in can be installed from the following link:
SAS BI Lineage Plug-in (Preproduction Release 3.1)
The software requirements for this plug-in are listed in the installation
instructions.
After installing the plug-in, you will need to create a custom repository that
will be used to save the scan output. Below are the steps for creating the repository.
- On the machine where your metadata server is running, create a directory
to hold the information for the BI Lineage repository. For example,
C:\SAS\EBI_SP4_SE29\Lev1\SASMain\MetadataServer\MetadataRepositories\BILineage.
- Login to the SAS Management Console and select the Metadata Manager
plug-in
- Right-click on Active Server and select Add Repository.
- On the Select Repository Type page, select Custom, and then click Next.
- Name the repository BILineage.
Note: The repository must be named BILineage.
- On the Definition of Data Source page,
for the Path, select the path that you created in step 1, and then click Next.
- On the Define Repository Dependencies page, select Foundation and move
it to the Repository will depend on box.
- Click Next and then Finish. You should see the following message:
