The Spotfire database scripts
The Spotfire Server installation file that you have downloaded from the Spotfire Download site (SPOT_sfire_server_version_win.zip (Windows) or SPOT_sfire_server_version_linux.tar (Linux)) contains a number of scripts that can be used for setting up a Spotfire database.
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- Running database preparation scripts for Kerberos configuration
If you plan to set up Kerberos authentication between your database and Spotfire Server, you must run the database SQL preparation scripts manually.
bat- and sh-scripts
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For each database type, there are two or more create_databases scripts available, and you choose the one that suits your needs.
- Windows: create_databases.bat
- Windows (SQL Server with integrated authentication): create_databases_ia.bat
- Windows (Oracle Database or SQL Server running on Amazon RDS): create_databases_rds.bat
- Linux: create_databases.sh
- Linux (Oracle Database or SQL Server running on Amazon RDS): create_databases_rds.sh
In the section under
Uncomment to set variables , you can edit the script
by providing the appropriate database server details for the variables.
SQL scripts
In the folder, there are also a number of SQL scripts (create_server or populate_server), which are consumed by the create_databases script.
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- create_server_db.sql
- create_server_user.sql
- create_server_user_ia.sql (SQL Server with integrated authentication)
- create_server_user_rds.sql (Oracle Database or SQL Server running on Amazon RDS)
- create_server_env.sql (Oracle Database or PostgreSQL)
- create_server_env_rds.sql (Oracle Database running on Amazon RDS)
- populate_server_db.sql
Action log scripts
There are also a number of scripts related to the creation of an action log. They are located under scripts/<database_type>_install/actionlog in the installation kit.
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See Action logs and system monitoring for more information.
- Windows: create_actionlog_db.bat
- Windows (Oracle Database or SQL Server running on Amazon RDS): create_actionlog_db_rds.bat
- Linux: create_actionlog_db.sh
- Linux (Oracle Database or SQL Server running on Amazon RDS): create_actionlog_db_rds.sh
The action log scripts also have the corresponding SQL scripts.