Displaying or hiding the Spotfire Server version

You can configure which users should be able to see information on the Spotfire Server version.

Default mode

By default, information about the Spotfire Server version is present in the About view and in the URL of the online help resources. This information is available to all logged in users. If anonymous authentication is enabled, the information is also available to anonymous users. Users who have not logged in cannot access the version information.

To activate the default mode, run the following commands in the <server installation directory>\tomcat\spotfire-bin directory on the command line:

config export-config --force
config set-config-prop -n security.version-settings-mode -v default
config import-config -c "Setting the version settings mode to default"

Safe mode

To hide this version information from anonymous users, so that the version information is only available to logged in users, it is possible to activate a safe mode.

To active the safe mode, run the following commands in the <server installation directory>\tomcat\spotfire-bin directory on the command line:

config export-config --force
config set-config-prop -n security.version-settings-mode -v safe
config import-config -c "Setting the version settings mode to safe"

Unsafe mode

To make the version information available to everyone, including anonymous users as well as users who have not logged in, it is possible to active an unsafe mode.

To active the unsafe mode, run the following commands in the <server installation directory>\tomcat\spotfire-bin directory on the command line:

config export-config --force
config set-config-prop -n security.version-settings-mode -v unsafe
config import-config -c "Setting the version settings mode to unsafe"

Note: This configuration setting does not affect the web client. See the showAbout and showHelp settings in the Spotfire.Dxp.Worker.Web.config configuration file for information on how to disable these features in the web client.