Upgrading a cluster of Spotfire Servers

Clustering is disabled by default. Therefore, during the update process, you must enable clustering and reconfigure your cluster-related options.

For general information on upgrading, see Upgrading. For general information on clustering, see Clustered server deployments.

Note: If you have a load balancer that routes based on the jvmRoute part of the session id, note that the default value has changed from uppercase to lowercase. If needed, update the load balancer configuration accordingly.
These are the basic steps for upgrading a clustered implementation of Spotfire:
  1. Download the required software; see Downloading required software.
  2. Install the Spotfire Servers in your cluster; see Install Spotfire Server.
  3. Apply the latest hotfix for your version of Spotfire Server (if one is available) to all of the servers; see Applying hotfixes to the server.
  4. On only one of the servers, run the upgrade tool; see Run the upgrade tool.
  5. On the same server, set your clustering parameters; see Setting up a cluster of Spotfire Servers.
  6. Start the same server; see Start or stop Spotfire Server.
  7. Start the other servers in the cluster.
  8. If you are using ActiveSpaces to secure the connections between clustered servers, you must install and configure ActiveSpaces on every server in the cluster; for details, see Using ActiveSpaces for clustering.