Service configuration and properties

After installing Spotfire Statistics Services, you can configure it for your particular deployment needs.

In planning your configuration, you should familiarize yourself with the installation folders and files, set the properties for your installaiton needs, and identify the service and engine log files. You can also configure the service for LDAP authentication, or change the analytic engine.

  • Simple no configuration installation
    A simple standalone Spotfire Statistics Services installation requires no additional configuration.
  • TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services data files
    You might be called on to manage data files associated with Spotfire Statistics Services.
  • Memory management
    Spotfire Statistics Services manages the job database size by conducting periodic cleanup.
  • Configuration and log files
    The conf and Spotfire Statistics Services directories of your Spotfire Statistics Services installation contain configuration and log files you can use manage and review the your Spotfire Statistics Services installation. In most cases, you should not have to change property settings.
  • Server properties
    The server configuration properties for Spotfire Statistics Services are contained in the file spserver.properties. We use the standard Java properties file conventions to define each server property.
  • Authentication in TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services
    Spotfire Statistics Services uses user properties, Active Directory (AD), or LDAP to authenticate users. Whether Spotfire Statistics Services checks for credentials depends on the authentication property settings.
  • Server environment properties
    When Spotfire Statistics Services starts, it establishes the environment by checking for the existence certain Java properties. These Java properties are specified during Spotfire Statistics Services installation.
  • WebDAV security configuration
    If you want to control the roles that use the webdav path in the Spotfire Statistics Services installation, create a file called webdav.security.config and set properties to manage that control.
  • Remote monitoring and management with JMX
    You can monitor Spotfire Statistics Services using TIBCO Hawk or any other Java Management Extensions (JMX) -compliant monitoring tool, like JConsole, which is a part of the Java SDK.
  • Changing the protocol or port
    You can change either the protocol or the port provided when Spotfire Statistics Services was installed.
  • Configuring an open-source R engine
    To use an open-source R engine with Spotfire Statistics Services, rather than the TERR™ engine provided with the installation, you must perform additional configuration steps.
  • Configuring a SAS engine
    To use SAS™ software as the Spotfire Statistics Services engine, you must perform additional configuration steps for each Spotfire Statistics Services installation.
  • Configuring a MATLAB engine
    To use MATLAB™ software as a Spotfire Statistics Services engine, you must perform additional configuration steps for each Spotfire Statistics Services installation.
  • Configuring TIBCO Spotfire to use TIBCO Spotfire Statistics Services
    If statisticians in your company develop and use data functions, or if they use the predictive analytics tools in Spotfire, and if they run these analyses through Spotfire Statistics Services, you must provide the service URL to the Spotfire Server administrator.
  • Engine affinity
    To improve performance on a multi-CPU Microsoft Windows® computer running multiple engines at a time, Spotfire Statistics Services manages the affinity of engine processes by assigning each process to a particular CPU, rather than moving engine assignments over time. This design is configurable for cases where the default behavior is not desirable.