Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

Installing the Spotfire client silently (by using the command line)

You can silently install the Spotfire client (the Spotfire Windows client) from the command line.

Procedure

  1. Open a command prompt as an administrator.
  2. Replace the parameters in the following script:
    setup-shared-computer-<version>.exe -silent -log <logfile> SERVERURL=http[s]://<hostname>:[<port>]/ INSTALLDIR="<location>"
    where -log creates a verbose installations log. The directory and file name for the log are specified after the "-log" text.
    Table 1. Silent installation parameters
    Parameter Description
    SERVERURL The server to connect to the first time that the client is started.
    INSTALLDIR The installation directory for the installed Spotfire client. If not specified, the program will be installed in the standard %programfiles% folder.
  3. Run the installation script.

Example

setup-shared-computer-10.10.0.exe -silent -log C:\AnalystInstallLog.txt
 SERVERURL=https:\\spotfireserver.example.com:8080 INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files (x86)"