Spotfire® Server and Environment - Installation and Administration

Spotfire Server Installation

There are several different options available to install Spotfire Server.

Note: Spotfire Server should run in an English (United States) language setting, as stated on the Spotfire Server System Requirements page.
Note: If you are upgrading, first read Upgrading Spotfire.

The Spotfire Server installer includes three major components: A Java environment (a Java Development Kit), a Tomcat application server, and a Spotfire Server web application.

The JAVA_HOME of the Apache Tomcat is set to the path of the installed Java Development Kit.

Depending on the method you choose to set up the database, you will run the server installation before or after you create the database. The database must be set up before you run the bootstrap command.

Select the appropriate installation procedure depending on your target operative system and provide the required parameters as indicated below.

Table 1. Installation parameters
Parameter Description Default
INSTALLDIR

[Only applicable for Windows installations.]

The installation directory.

SPOTFIRE_WINDOWS_SERVICE

[Only applicable for Windows installations.]

The available options are Create and DoNotCreate.

SERVER_FRONTEND_PORT Used for communication with Spotfire clients. 80
SERVER_BACKEND_REGISTRATION_PORT Used for key exchange to set up trusted communication between the Spotfire Server and nodes. 9080
SERVER_BACKEND_COMMUNICATION_PORT Used for encrypted traffic between nodes. 9443
NODEMANAGER_HOST_NAMES

[Only applicable for Windows installations.]

A comma-separated list of IP addresses, hostnames, and FQDN names that can be used by back-end trust. These should be for the interfaces on the computer where the node manager is installed.
Note: Valid hostnames can only contain alphabetic characters, numeric characters, hyphens and periods.
Note: If you do not enter any values, the Windows installer automatically provides values. After installation, confirm that these are correct in the following file: <node manager installation dir>\nm\config\nodemanager.properties.