Installation Instructions for Hot Fix C09001

Linux


Hot fix C09001 addresses the issue(s) in SAS Digital Marketing 5.3_M1 on Linux as documented in the Issue(s) Addressed section of the hot fix download page:

http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/C09.html#C09001


This hot fix contains updates to the following software components:

SAS Digital Marketing Grid Node 5.3_M1
SAS Digital Marketing Server Components 5.3_M1
SAS Digital Marketing Studio 5.3_M1
SAS Digital Marketing Web Studio and Web Reporting Infrastructure 5.3_M1

Before applying this hot fix, follow the instructions in SAS Note 35968 to generate a SAS Deployment Registry report, then verify that the appropriate product releases are installed on your system. The software components and release numbers should match the list of software components updated by the individual hot fix installers.


IMPORTANT NOTES

  1. This hot fix should be applied only to installations performed from Software Orders with a revision of SAS 9.2 TS2M3, Rev. 920_10w27 or greater. If your software was installed from an earlier order, for example SAS 9.2 TS2M3, Rev. 920_10w20, you must contact SAS Technical Support for assistance.

  2. Files delivered in this hot fix will be backed up during the installation process. However, it is good general practice to back up your system before applying updates to software.

  3. You must have Administrator Privileges on your CLIENT or SERVER machine.

  4. All currently active SAS sessions, daemons, spawners and servers must be terminated before applying this hot fix.

  5. This hot fix should be installed using the same userid who performed the initial software installation.


INSTALLATION


The installer downloaded is C09001lx.bin. Copy C09001lx.bin to each Linux machine on which SAS Digital Marketing 5.3_M1 components are installed.

To install the hot fix, on each machine:

1. Verify that the installation binary has execute permission. If it does not, use the chmod command to make it executable.

$> chmod 755 C09001lx.bin
2. Set your $DISPLAY environment variable
export DISPLAY=<your_node_name>:0
3. Execute C09001lx.bin
<path_to_downloaded_file>/C09001lx.bin
    For example:
./C09001lx.bin

This will initiate the installation wizard, which will guide you through the hot fix installation process. During the installation you will be prompted for the SASHOME location to be updated. You should provide the path to the top level SAS directory where the deploymntreg directory exists.

The installation process will determine which components of SAS Digital Marketing 5.3_M1 are installed on the machine, and apply the appropriate updates.

If components of this product are installed on multiple operating systems, you must download the hot fix for the appropriate operating system(s) and follow the installation instructions provided to complete the deployment of this hot fix.


See the Maintenance Installation Tool (MIT) documentation for more details on the installation of hot fixes.


This completes the installation of C09001. Post-installation steps must be performed to successfully complete the deployment of this hot fix.


POST-INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Updates to SAS Digital Marketing 5.3_M1 provided in this hot fix require that Web Applications be rebuilt and redeployed using the following steps.

  1. On the server run sconfig and run through the configuration. In the wizard make sure you choose Create a new tracking deployment.

  2. Re-deploy the configured bess.war and sdm.war to your middle tier locations. The deployed WARs should be in <!SASHOME>/SASDigitalMarketing/5.3/deployments. Check the dates to make sure the deployment wars have been updated.

    See the Configuring the Tracking and Web Publication Tier and Configuring SAS Digital Marketing Web Studio sections in the SAS Digital Marketing Administration Guide for more details.


This completes the deployment of hot fix C09001 on Linux.