Post-installation Configuration and Verification Steps

After you install SAS Decision Manager using SAS Software Depot, you must perform additional configuration steps before you can use SAS Decision Manager.

Verify that all installation and configuration steps in the Instructions.html file have been completed. The Instructions.html file is located in \sasconfigdir\Lev#\Documents\. Follow the instructions that are provided in this file.
Create application users and assign permissions.
Verify that the WebDAV folder permissions are set appropriately to allow authorized users to create and edit user-defined templates.
(Optional) SAS Decision Manager supports the use of multiple SAS Application Servers to be used as part of a performance definition, a scoring test, or a model retrain definition. To use a SAS Application Server context other than the default SASApp, you must add a new workspace server and create a new SAS Application Server context using the SAS Deployment Wizard. For more information, see Add a New Workspace Server and Create a SAS Application Server Context.
If the SAS Workspace Server is located in a UNIX environment, you must enable the SAS Workspace Server XCMD option in order to support R model functionality.
(Optional) Run the scripts to create Oracle synonyms in the database if you do not want to use the default Oracle schema.
If you cleared the Automatically create tables and load data check box during installation, then you must manually create and load the Oracle database tables for business rules data and modeling project metadata, including history, job definitions, and job logs. For more information, see Create Oracle Database Tables.
In order to publish models from SAS Decision Manager to a database for scoring, additional configuration steps are required to prepare the database. For more information, see Preparing a Data Management System for Use with SAS Model Manager in SAS In-Database Products: Administrator’s Guide.

Note: If your system is configured for Kerberos authentication, each user must have a valid Kerberos ticket. Also, you must complete post-installation configuration steps to enable users to publish models from the SAS Model Manager application. For more information, see Configure Users Authenticated by Kerberos.
Verify that the Certificate Authority certificate is available.
(Optional) Configure your deployment to use HTTPS.
(Optional) Configure your deployment for single sign-on web authentication.
(Optional) Add the Visual Analytics: Data Building and Data Management: Lineage roles to the Decision Manager Users group. See Administering Group and Role Membership for more information. These roles enable users to run SAS Visual Data Builder and view lineage information for rule flows and models.
(Optional) Configure SAS Workflow.
Configure the Decision Builder testing directory.
Verify the configuration of the dashboard reports directory on the SAS Workspace Server.
Configure the Model Manager Java Services Options.
(Optional) Configure the limit for the number of observations for a scoring result set.
(Optional) Configure the limit for character strings.
Review the Business Rules Manager Web properties in SAS Management Console.
(Optional) Modify log file settings.
(Optional) If you have a license for SAS Factory Miner and want to integrate with SAS Decision Manager to be able to register models to the model repository, see SAS Factory Miner: Administration and Configuration.

For more information about post-installation tasks, see SAS Intelligence Platform: Installation and Configuration Guide.

Last updated: February 22, 2017