Installing the Spotfire Server files (silently on Windows)

You can install the Spotfire Server files silently on Windows by running the installer from the command prompt.

Before you begin

The Spotfire database setup is completed. For instructions, see Spotfire database setup.

Note: For security and product performance reasons, it is recommended that you install Spotfire Server on a different computer than the database.

Procedure

Open a command prompt as an administrator (or, if you are using Windows Integrated Authentication, as the Spotfire Server database user).

Note: If you use Microsoft SQL Server with Windows Integrated Authentication, install Spotfire Server as the Domain User that you set up with the script create_databases_ia.bat. Also, see to that this user has permission to write to the installation folder and make sure that Spotfire Server always runs as this Domain User. Confirm with the logs that Spotfire Server starts.

Edit the default parameters in the following script. Make sure that none of the ports that you select are already in use.

“c:\Desktop\TIB_sfire_server_version_win\setup-win64.exe" INSTALLDIR="C:\<MySpotfireServer>" SPOTFIRE_WINDOWS_SERVICE=Create SERVER_FRONTEND_PORT=80 SERVER_BACKEND_REGISTRATION_PORT=9080 SERVER_BACKEND_COMMUNICATION_PORT=9443 NODEMANAGER_HOST_NAMES=localhost -silent -log "C:\Users\user\Log file2.log"

Table 1. Silent installation parameters
Parameter	Description	Default
`INSTALLDIR`	The installation directory.
`SPOTFIRE_WINDOWS_SERVICE`	The available options are Create and DoNotCreate.
`SERVER_FRONTEND_PORT`	Used for communication with Spotfire clients.	80
`SERVER_BACKEND_REGISTRATION_PORT`	Used for key exchange to set up trusted communication between the Spotfire Server and nodes.	9080
`SERVER_BACKEND_COMMUNICATION_PORT`	Used for encrypted traffic between nodes.	9443
`NODEMANAGER_HOST_NAMES`	A comma-separated list of IP addresses, hostnames, and FQDN names that can be used by back-end trust. These should be for the interfaces on the computer where the node manager is installed. Note: Valid hostnames can only contain alphabetic characters, numeric characters, hyphens and periods. Note: If you do not enter any values, the installer automatically provides values. After installation, confirm that these are correct in the following file: <node manager installation dir>\nm\config\nodemanager.properties.

Run the installation script.

What to do next

Apply any available hotfixes for Spotfire Server; see Applying hotfixes.