TIBCO Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

Basic installation process for Spotfire

To get Spotfire up and running in a simple configuration, follow these steps. The resulting simple installation includes the following: the server on one computer, a few Spotfire Web Player instances available for other computers, the Spotfire Analyst client on another computer, and the user directory in the Spotfire database.

Prerequisites

A database server must be up and running, preferably on a dedicated computer. The Spotfire environment supports a couple of different database systems.
Note: To view the complete system requirements, go to http://spotfi.re/sr.
  1. Download installation software.
  2. Download hotfixes
  3. Collect the required information.
  4. Set up the Spotfire database
  5. Run the Spotfire Server installer.
  6. Apply hotfixes.
  7. Create the bootstrap.xml file.
  8. Create and save a basic Spotfire Server configuration.
  9. Create an administrator user.
  10. Start Spotfire Server.
  11. Deploy client software packages to Spotfire Server.
  12. Install a node manager.
  13. Trust the node.
  14. Install Spotfire Web Player instances.
  15. Optional: Install Spotfire Automation Services instances.
  16. Optional: Install the TERR service instance. For details, see TIBCO® Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition.
  17. Optional: Install the Spotfire Service for Python. For details, see TIBCO® Spotfire Service for Python.

  18. Install Spotfire Analyst.

Note: Alternatively, you can use the command line after step 5 above (see Manually creating a simple configuration) or run a script that invokes multiple commands (see Scripting a configuration).
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