Administration
Administrators perform most management tasks in Spotfire Server, including creating users and groups, setting licenses, deploying software updates, and managing and monitoring software configurations.
Setting preferences, however, and managing the library, take place in Spotfire Analyst.
- Opening the Spotfire Server administration pages
You can access the Spotfire Server administration pages through a browser on any computer in the domain. - Users
There are three types of Spotfire user accounts: local, external, and system. All of these accounts are registered in the Spotfire database. The administrator organizes the users into groups; the licenses that provide access to Spotfire features, as well as preference settings and other options, are applied at the group level. - Groups and license features
Users' group membership determines the Spotfire features that they have access to, and therefore their role in the Spotfire environment. - Nodes & Services
In Spotfire Server you can scale up or scale down your implementation as needed, add and manage the service instances you need, as well as create and manage resource pools to be used by routing rules. - Resource pools
Resource pools are used in routing rules to direct Spotfire traffic to specific service instances. - Understanding routing
When a request is made to open a specific analysis file, the routing mechanism goes through the configured routing rules in priority order. The applicable rule could be a routing rule, a scheduled update (SU) rule or the default routing rule, resulting in one or more service instances to choose between. This topic describes how the routing is done on the server. - Routing rules
A routing rule specifies the resource pool on which an analysis opens. You can create routing rules to set a resource pool on which to open analyses that are requested by members of a specific group, or by a specific user. You can also set a resource pool for a specific analysis, regardless of who requests it. - Scheduled updates to analyses
For analyses that contain links to large amounts of data, downloading fresh data can take a significant amount of time. Scheduled updates save time by downloading the latest data before users need it. - Deployments and deployment areas
To deploy Spotfire software, the administrator places software packages in a deployment area and assigns the deployment area to particular groups. - Monitoring and diagnostics
Spotfire Server provides a wide range of information to help you manage and troubleshoot your implementation. - Automation Services job scheduling
In the Automation Services area of the Spotfire web administration pages, you can schedule Automation Services jobs to run periodically. Then you can monitor and troubleshoot the resulting job executions. - Command-based library administration tasks
Most library administration tasks are performed in Spotfire Analyst. These include structuring the library and its contents, and setting permissions for library folders. The tasks listed here either can be performed only in Spotfire Server, or can be performed in the server (as well as in Spotfire Analyst) for administrators who prefer using the command line.
- Opening the Spotfire Server administration pages
You can access the Spotfire Server administration pages through a browser on any computer in the domain. - Users
There are three types of Spotfire user accounts: local, external, and system. All of these accounts are registered in the Spotfire database. The administrator organizes the users into groups; the licenses that provide access to Spotfire features, as well as preference settings and other options, are applied at the group level. - Groups and license features
Users' group membership determines the Spotfire features that they have access to, and therefore their role in the Spotfire environment. - Nodes & Services
In Spotfire Server you can scale up or scale down your implementation as needed, add and manage the service instances you need, as well as create and manage resource pools to be used by routing rules. - Resource pools
Resource pools are used in routing rules to direct Spotfire traffic to specific service instances. - Understanding routing
When a request is made to open a specific analysis file, the routing mechanism goes through the configured routing rules in priority order. The applicable rule could be a routing rule, a scheduled update (SU) rule or the default routing rule, resulting in one or more service instances to choose between. This topic describes how the routing is done on the server. - Routing rules
A routing rule specifies the resource pool on which an analysis opens. You can create routing rules to set a resource pool on which to open analyses that are requested by members of a specific group, or by a specific user. You can also set a resource pool for a specific analysis, regardless of who requests it. - Scheduled updates to analyses
For analyses that contain links to large amounts of data, downloading fresh data can take a significant amount of time. Scheduled updates save time by downloading the latest data before users need it. - Deployments and deployment areas
To deploy Spotfire software, the administrator places software packages in a deployment area and assigns the deployment area to particular groups. - Monitoring and diagnostics
Spotfire Server provides a wide range of information to help you manage and troubleshoot your implementation. - Automation Services job scheduling
In the Automation Services area of the Spotfire web administration pages, you can schedule Automation Services jobs to run periodically. Then you can monitor and troubleshoot the resulting job executions. - Command-based library administration tasks
Most library administration tasks are performed in Spotfire Analyst. These include structuring the library and its contents, and setting permissions for library folders. The tasks listed here either can be performed only in Spotfire Server, or can be performed in the server (as well as in Spotfire Analyst) for administrators who prefer using the command line.