Installing Spotfire Automation Services instances

After installing and authorizing a node manager, you can install Spotfire Automation Services and indicate the number of instances of this service that you want to make available. Spotfire Automation Services can then be accessed on any computer in the network.

About this task

Note: All users that execute Automation Services jobs on the server, using the Job Builder or the Client Job Sender, must be members of the group Automation Services Users.

Before you begin

You have installed and authorized a node manager; for instructions, see Installing a node manager and Trusting a node.
Spotfire Server and the node manager are up and running.
You have deployed client packages to Spotfire Server; for instructions, see Deploying client packages to Spotfire Server.
You have assigned licenses required by the Automation Services jobs to the automationservices@SPOTFIRESYSTEM user, which is the account used to execute the jobs on the service instance. You have also given the user the appropriate read and write access to the library for the data required by the Automation Services tasks, and the job files.
Note: For a description of the licenses, see the License feature reference.

Procedure

Log in to Spotfire Server and click Nodes & Services.
In the Nodes view, select the node to which you want to add the Spotfire Automation Services service. There should be a green circle with a check mark next to the selected node manager.
The words Installed services followed by the name of the node manager are displayed in the lower-right pane of the window.
Click Install new service.
Make your selections in the "Install new service" dialog:
1. Under Deployment area, select the area you are using.
  
  Note: Administrators generally create a Test deployment area to use as a staging server.
2. Under Capability select Automation Services.
3. Under Configuration, select the service configuration that you want to apply to the service.
  
  Note: Spotfire Server contains a default service configuration that you can replace later. If you want to prepare a configuration file ahead of time, see Preconfiguring Spotfire Automation Services.
4. Under Number of instances, enter the number of instances of the service that you want to make available.
5. Under Port, you can change the default of 9501 if you want to.
6. Enter a name for this service.
Click Install and start.
To view the progress of the installation, click the Activity tab.

What to do next

For information on the remaining setup tasks, see Post-installation steps.