Add a New Workspace Server and Create a SAS Application Server Context

SAS Decision Manager on SAS 9.4 provides support for multiple SAS Application Servers that can be used when specifying a performance definition, a scoring test, or a model retrain definition.
To add a new workspace server to your SAS Decision Manager installation:
  1. On the machine where the SAS Application Server was installed, start the SAS Deployment Wizard from the highest-level directory in your SAS Software Depot using the command file that is appropriate for your operating system. On Windows systems that command file is setup.exe. For UNIX systems, use setup.sh.
  2. Select Install SAS Software. Click Next.
  3. Select Perform a Planned Deployment, deselect Install SAS Software, and select only Configure SAS Software. Click Next.
  4. You must use the same deployment plan that was used when you installed the original server component. This example uses one of the standard deployment plans. Choose Select a standard deployment plan, and select the appropriate Model Mgr plan for your machine configuration. Click Next.
  5. Select the server machine on which you want to configure the SAS Application Server. Click Next.
  6. On the Checking System page, click Next.
  7. On the Select Configuration Prompting Level page, select Typical. Click Next.
  8. On the Specify Configuration Information page, you must select the same options as your original installation. For this example, use the default settings. Click Next.
  9. The SAS Deployment Wizard warns you that the configuration directory and level that you specified contain existing files. Select Yes.
  10. On the Select Products to Configure page, select SAS Workspace Server. Click Next.
  11. On the Local Machine Name page, accept the default settings. Click Next.
  12. On the Migration Information page, no migration should be performed. Click Next.
  13. On the Integrated Windows Authentication page, accept the default settings. Click Next.
  14. On the SAS Metadata Server page, accept the default settings. Verify that the SAS Metadata Server and port are valid. Click Next.
  15. On the Deployment Accounts: Type of Accounts page, select Use SAS internal accounts when appropriate. Click Next.
  16. On the SAS Internal Account: Unrestricted Administrator page, enter the same password that was used in the original installation. Click Next.
  17. On the Deployment Accounts: First User page, there is no need to set up a first user ID. Click Next.
  18. On the Create SAS Application Server Context page, select Create a SAS Application Server Context. Click Next.
  19. On the SAS Application Server: Server Context page, enter SASApp_2 in the field SAS Application Server Context Name. Click Next.
  20. On the SAS Server Dependencies page, confirm that the value of SAS Application Server Context is SASApp_2. Click Next.
  21. On the SAS Workspace Server page, enter the workspace server port. This example uses the default value, 8592. Click Next.
  22. Select the deployment summary and click Start. When the SAS Deployment Wizard is finished, note the additional resources and click Finish.
Next you must configure the Job Execution Service and restart the SAS web application servers.
  1. Run SAS Management Console and select the Plug-ins tab. Select SAS Application Managementthen selectConfiguration Managerthen selectSAS Application Infrastructurethen selectWeb Infra Platform Services 9.4then selectJobExecutionService.
  2. Right-click JobExecutionService and select Properties.
  3. Select the Settings tab in the JobExecutionService Properties window and locate the Configure Execution Queues from Available Server Contexts section.
  4. Select the new server (for example, SASApp_2). Then move it to the Selected list.
  5. In the SASApp_2 Execution Queue Properties section, clear Enable for interactive execution?.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Restart SAS servers, including the SAS Metadata Server and SAS Web Application Servers. For example, in a default Windows installation this can be done for Services from the Windows Management Console by restarting the Service name, such as SAS [Config-Lev1] WebAppServer SASServer11_1.
To verify your new server from SAS Decision Manager:
  1. Sign in to SAS Decision Manager.
  2. Create a scoring test that uses the new SAS Application Server context.
  3. Execute the scoring test.
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Last updated: February 22, 2017