Glossary
Deployments & Packages
Nodes & Services
- node manager
- The node manager is the networked software agent that is responsible for managing a set of services on a specific physical or virtual host. This software makes it possible to execute remote commands from the Spotfire Server.
- service
- An application that runs on a node manager and provides a particular capability; in the current version of Spotfire Server, Spotfire Web Player and Spotfire Automation Services are the available services. A service is not available to end users until a service instance is running.
- service instance
- A specific realization of a service that is available to Spotfire end users. For example, when a user opens an analysis in the Spotfire Web Player, the user is accessing a particular instance of the Web Player service. (This distinction is invisible to the user.)
- resource pool
- A set of specific Spotfire Web Player service instances (or a single instance) that can be used in a routing rule to define where a given file, or a file requested by a specific user, should preferably open. For example, a rule can specify that company VIPs always view analyses in a particular resource pool.
Scheduling & Routing
- rules
- There are three types of rules:
File,
Group, and
User.
The Spotfire administrator creates rules to do one of the following:
Miscellaneous
- information link
- An information link is a structured request for data. Users can create information links to connect to external JDBC databases and thereby access and load data into Spotfire analysis files. Information links and the elements they are created from are stored in the Spotfire database.
- license
- Licenses determine which features and functionality a user has access to when working in Spotfire. Administrators set licenses at the group level, using the Administration Manager in Spotfire Analyst.
- post-authentication filter
- The Spotfire Server filter that can either block all users who try to log in but are not already present in the user directory, or automatically create a new account in the user directory for any user who logs in to the server for the first time. It is also possible to use the Spotfire Server api to create a custom post-authentication filter.
- preferences
- Preferences are default settings for the way that people work, and the analyses they create. Preferences include a wide range of properties, from which toolbars are visible when the user starts Spotfire to the look of tables in visualizations. Administrators set preferences at the group level, using the Administration Manager in Spotfire Analyst.
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