Configuring shared import and export directory for clustered deployments
The library administrator can import and export the contents of a library folder from the Library Administration tool in Spotfire Analyst. The import and export files are stored in a directory specified in the Spotfire Server configuration. In a clustered environment, where the client could be communicating with any of the servers, configure a common shared directory.
About this task
For general information about Spotfire Server clusters, see Clustered server deployments.
You can set the import and export folder from either the configuration tool, or from the command-line command config-import-export-directory. This task uses the configuration tool.
- For Windows clusters
running
Spotfire Server,
you use a UNC-style path (for example,
<import-export-path>\\servername\share\import_export</import-export-path>), which does not work on a Linux deployment. - For Linux clusters running Spotfire Server, you can use only local paths. That is, for Linux, you must mount the network path to a local path and then specify the local path in the Spotfire Server setting.
- You cannot use an NFS-style path (for example, //server:/path/to/share/) on either Windows or Linux clusters.
- We do not recommend running Spotfire Server in a mixed environment; however, note that neither path type works in both environments.
Before you begin
You must have created the directory, and then shared it with all of the Spotfire Server installations in the cluster.