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Had a weird one this week.
SAS are installing a Grid environment at a customer site.
We had already installed the SAS 9.2 clients on a dedicated Citrix box, so the dev team could test the new SAS 9.2 clients / functionality.
We wanted to add a few clients, including the Enterprise Miner 6.2 client (we aren;t installing a websever so can’t use the web based java client).
So ran the install wizard, selected add additional software and then selected Enterprise Miner client. Install wizard went through ok and completed succesfully.
But there was no Enterprise Miner shortcut on the start menu, and if I clicked the em.exe I got nada.
After a bit of tooing and froing, the answer was to run the install wizard, do a planned deployment and only select the client tier and then Enterprise Miner.
Thing that is confusing is that Enterprise Guide, Management Console, DI Studio etc all installed ok via the add additional software option.
Just not Enterprise Miner (and no error messages of course).
I won’t rant about the fact that although a lot of the SAS products/client interfaces all finally share the same infrastructure components, user interfaces and functionality (im loving shared prompts), a number of them are stil orphans in this regard (why oh why doesnt EM use std metadata connection profiles like every other SAS client!)
But if you do find that you manually install Enterprise MIner client and it just doesn’t, try a planned deployment.
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