SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.5, Administrator'S Manual

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SAS Scalable Performance Data Server 4.5 and
SAS Deployment Wizard
SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPD Server) 4.5 can be installed as part of your
initial SAS 9.2 installation. Or, SPD Server 4.5 can be installed as an add-on product to an
existing SAS 9.2 installation. In either case, the SPD Server 4.5 installation is facilitated
by the SAS Deployment Wizard. The SAS Deployment Wizard installs SPD Server to the
following location on your computer:
<SASROOT>/
SASScalablePerformanceDataServer/4.5/
.
Note : <SASROOT> is a placeholder for the full path specification to the base directory of
your SAS 9.2 installation.
Before You Install: Precautions and Required
Permissions
Note: Before you install, see “SPD Server 4.5 Product Notes ” on page 3 for important
information about features in this release.
Review the following precautions and required permissions:
• Read “SPD Server Pre-Installation and System Requirements Guide ” on page 7 .
• SPD Server 4.5 is distributed only as a 64-bit environment application for Solaris by
Sun, AIX by IBM, Linux by SUSE or Red Hat, and HP-UX by Hewlett-Packard.
• SAS recommends that you use a UNIX user ID other than root to run your production
SPD Server environment. Although there are no known security or integrity problems
with SPD Server 4.5, root access is not required to run SPD Server. After you correctly
configure UNIX directory ownership and you set permissions on your LIBNAME
domains, there is no real need or benefit for root access to SPD Server. For more
information and a list of options to use when configuring SPD Server, see
“Notes for
SPD Server Administrators” on page 32 .
• SAS recommends that you install SPD Server in a location that is adequately mirrored
and backed up to assure reliability. The SPD Server installation location should use
system space in which the SPD Server Administrator has full rights.
• General familiarity with the UNIX language is required to install SPD Server 4.5. At
a minimum, installers should be familiar with basic UNIX shell entities (such as sh,
csh, and ksh), Bourne shell scripts, the UNIX tar command, and how to modify files
using a UNIX text editor.
• You need appropriate access permissions to create the installation directory for SPD
Server on the file system where you install the server software. The owner of the SPD
Server installation directory should be the UNIX user ID of the SPD Server
administrator. For more information, see
“Notes for SPD Server Administrators” on
page 32 .
• You need Write access to your server machine's
/etc/inet/services
or
/etc/
services
file, if you want SPD Server clients to connect to the SPD Server host using
name services instead of specifying port numbers at invocation. Name services require
you to define registered ports that use the services file appropriate to your machine.
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Chapter 3 • SPD Server UNIX Installation Guide