Spotfire Server introduction
Spotfire Server is the administrative center of any Spotfire environment.
In addition to providing the tools for configuring and administering the Spotfire environment, Spotfire Server facilitates the services that make it possible for users to access, blend, and visualize their data, creating analyses that provide actionable insight. The server also enables sharing of the prepared analyses to consumers.
Spotfire Server
has the following main functional areas and responsibilities:
Functional area | Function |
---|---|
Library services | Provides centralized storage of Spotfire analysis files and metadata. The library items reside in the Spotfire database. |
User services | Provides user authentication and role-based authorization. |
Audit services | Provides centralized collection of action logs. |
Deployment services | Delivers client product upgrades. |
Information Services | Provides a centralized point of data access
and metadata management for relational data sources. The following functions
are provided by Information Services:
|
Client connections and routing services | Provides access point for all client
connections.
Routes clients to the appropriate service instance, based on smart default routing or configured routing rules. Continually gathers information about the state of all service instances. |
Parent topic: Introduction to the TIBCO Spotfire environment
Related concepts
- Spotfire database introduction
- Nodes and services introduction
- Spotfire clients introduction
- Environment communication introduction
- Authentication and user directory introduction
- Users introduction
- Groups and licenses introduction
- Preferences introduction
- Deployment introduction
- Spotfire library introduction
- Routing introduction
- Data sources introduction
- Logging introduction
- Administration interface introduction
- Example scenario