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Installing and Configuring a SAS Grid Environment
The following diagrams and documents provide the information necessary to install, configure, and troubleshoot a SAS grid environment.
This version is shipped with SAS Grid Manager 9.2 and used by SAS Scheduling for SAS 9.2. It can be download from SAS Technical Support for use with SAS Grid Manager 9.1.3 or SAS Scheduling for SAS 9.1.3.
These versions previously used by SAS Grid Manager 9.1.3 and SAS Scheduling for SAS 9.1.3.
Installation and configuration of a SAS grid environment based upon the SAS Grid Manager components is a 2 step process:
- Install and configure The Platform Suite for SAS which is third party grid middleware that ships with the SAS Grid Manager product.
- Install and configure the set of SAS products that you have licensed for the grid enviornment. At a minimum, this will be Base SAS, SAS/CONNECT and SAS Grid Manager.
Installation of a SAS grid environment is driven by a plan file. There are several grid sample plan files that ship with the SAS System. There are sample plans for installing SAS Data Integration Studio in a grid environment, SAS Enterprise Miner in a grid environment and also Foundation SAS in a grid environment. We recommend that either one of the sample plans provided be used for the installation and configuration of the grid or that it be used as the basis to create a customized plan to match your grid environment.
Two metadata server definitions are required by SAS Grid Manager:
- a grid logical server definition
- a grid monitoring server definition