Configuring a server cluster with ActiveSpaces (Windows)

After installing ActiveSpaces, you must make two changes to the Windows environment variables of each server computer to complete the basic cluster configuration.

Prerequisites

For general information about Spotfire Server clusters, see Clustered server deployments.

Procedure

  1. On the Spotfire Server computer, open the Environment Variables dialog.
  2. In the "User variables" pane, define AS_HOME as shown in the following example:
    Edit System Variable dialog
  3. In the "System variables" pane, add entries to the PATH for the lib folder and the bin folder, as shown in the following example:
    Edit System Variable dialog
  4. If you have not done this yet, copy the file <ActiveSpaces installation dir>\lib\as-common.jar to the following directory: <Spotfire Server installation dir>\tomcat\webapps\spotfire\WEB-INF\lib.
  5. Restart the computer.
  6. Repeat steps 1-5 for each server computer in the cluster.