SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

152 Creating and Running a Promotion Job R Chapter 17
Creating and Running a Promotion Job
Overview of Creating and Running a Promotion Job
Once you have set up your source, target, and administration machines, you are ready
to use SAS Management Console to create a promotion job and to run that job. After
you run the promotion job, you complete the promotion manually by editing some of the
metadata in the target repository. These topics are discussed in the following sections:
3 “Building a Promotion Job” on page 152
3 “Running a Promotion Job” on page 158
3 “Making Modifications after Running a Promotion Job” on page 159
Building a Promotion Job
You create a promotion job—that is, you generate the SAS code required to promote a
metadata repository—by running the SAS Management Console Promotion Wizard. To
run this wizard, follow these directions.
1 On the administration machine, start SAS Management Console, and connect to
the metadata server on that machine using a metadata profile that contains the
credentials of the SAS Replication Administrator (sasrpadm).
2 Expand the Metadata Manager and Job Definition nodes in the SAS
Management Console tree. Underneath the Job Definition node, you will see
icons labeled Promotion and Replication.
3 Right-click the Promotion icon, and select New Definition from the pop-up menu
that appears. The Promotion Wizard starts.
4 The wizard’s first page asks you to choose the source metadata server.
Provide the following information: