Connecting to Analytic Server

If you have multiple Analytic Servers available, you can use the Analytic Server Connection dialog to define more than one server for use in IBM® SPSS® Modeler. Your administrator may have already set up a default Analytic Server in the <Modeler_install_path>/config/options.cfg file. But you can also use other available servers after defining them. For example, when using the Analytic Server Source and Export nodes, you may want to use different Analytic Server connections in different branches of a stream so that when each branch runs it uses its own Analytic Server and no data will be pulled to the IBM SPSS Modeler Server. Note that if a branch contains more than one Analytic Server connection, the data will be pulled from the Analytic Servers to the IBM SPSS Modeler Server.

To create a new Analytic Server connection, go to Tools > Analytic Server Connections and provide the required information in the following sections of the dialog.

Connection

URL. Type the URL for the Analytic Server in the format https://hostname:port/contextroot, where hostname is the IP address or host name of the Analytic Server, port is its port number, and contextroot is the context root of the Analytic Server.

Tenant. Type the name of the tenant that the IBM SPSS Modeler Server is a member of. Contact your administrator if you don't know the tenant.

Authentication

Mode. Select from the following authentication modes.
  • Username and password requires you to enter the username and password.
  • Stored credential requires you to select a credential from the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository.
  • Kerberos requires you to enter the service principal name and the config file path. Contact your administrator if you don't know this information.

Username. Type the Analytic Server username.

Reams. Select the realm to use for the Analytic Server connection.

Password. Type the Analytic Server password.

Connect. Click Connect to test the new connection.

Connections

After specifying the information above and clicking Connect, the connection will be added to this Connections table. If you need to remove a connection, select it and click Remove.

If your administrator defined a default Analytic Server connection in the options.cfg file, you can click Add default connection to add it to your available connections also. You will be prompted for the username and password.

For information about setting up a default connection in options.cfg, see Options visible in options.cfg.