Upgrading Spotfire
Follow these steps to upgrade your Spotfire environment to the new version of Spotfire. Note that, in most situations, you will do an upgrade to the latest version (for mainstream releases) or to the latest service pack version (the third version number, for LTS versions) instead of applying any separate hotfixes to the system.
About this task
Before you begin
- Before upgrading, create a working backup of your Spotfire database.
- Download the required software from the TIBCO eDelivery website. For details, see Downloading installation software.
Important: Spotfire 10.3 introduced the
Data Function Trust security feature. This means that, if you are upgrading
from an earlier version than 10.3, you must take additional steps during the
upgrade for data functions to continue working as expected. Read about the
steps you have to take in this Community article:
Script and Data function trust in Spotfire 10.3
and later. Also, other important changes were made in Spotfire 10.3.
Read about them in the "New Features" and "Changes in Functionality" sections
of the
Spotfire Server 10.3 release notes.
Procedure
- Installation of Spotfire Server during upgrade
When you install Spotfire Server, the upgrade tool is installed as well. - Upgrading a cluster of Spotfire Servers
Spotfire Server clustering is enabled by default. - Run the Spotfire Server upgrade tool
The server upgrade tool updates the database. You can run the upgrade tool interactively, or silently by using the command-line interface. - Start Spotfire Server
After running the server upgrade tool, start the Spotfire Server. - Upgrading nodes
To upgrade the nodes, you can most of the time just deploy new node manager and client packages to the server. If this should fail for some reason, you can also install the new node managers on the same hosts as the old node managers. Then run the node manager upgrade tool on each new node manager. - Upgrading service configurations
Service configuration changes require manual updates if you do not want to use their default values.
- Installation of Spotfire Server during upgrade
When you install Spotfire Server, the upgrade tool is installed as well. - Upgrading a cluster of Spotfire Servers
Spotfire Server clustering is enabled by default. - Run the Spotfire Server upgrade tool
The server upgrade tool updates the database. You can run the upgrade tool interactively, or silently by using the command-line interface. - Start Spotfire Server
After running the server upgrade tool, start the Spotfire Server. - Upgrading nodes
To upgrade the nodes, you can most of the time just deploy new node manager and client packages to the server. If this should fail for some reason, you can also install the new node managers on the same hosts as the old node managers. Then run the node manager upgrade tool on each new node manager. - Upgrading service configurations
Service configuration changes require manual updates if you do not want to use their default values.