Configuring the action log web service from the configuration tool

To collect logging from the Spotfire Server and specified services (Spotfire Analyst, Web Player and Automation Services), first enable and configure writing to files or a database, and then enable and configure the action log web service. This task describes configuring the action log web service from the configuration tool.

Prerequisites

  • You must have administrative credentials for Spotfire Server.
  • You must have either configured the tool to write to a file or to a database to collect the logs.

Procedure

  1. On the computer running Spotfire Server, click Start, go to the Spotfire Server folder, and click Configure TIBCO Spotfire Server.
  2. In the Configuration Start panel, click User Action log.
    User Action Log configuration options are displayed.
  3. Set Enable web service to Yes.
    For this option to be enabled, you must have completed the prerequisite to write to a file or database to collect logs.
    The Web service configuration section is available.
  4. Specify the settings for the web service configuration.
    • Specify the allowed host as a regular expression, if different from the default .*. For example, 192\.168\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{ 1,3}$
    • Specify which categories to allow to communicate with the server. The default is All. If you set this option to Some Categories, then you can select from the resulting list box the service categories to allow. See Action log categories for a complete list.
    At startup, a service reads the list and sends to the Spotfire Server user action logger only the user action information for those services that are allowed. If a service is not allowed, then at startup, it has no communication with the Spotfire Server action logger. This setting is useful if you want to remove high-volume services from filling the log files.

    If you set the property to enable a service, but you do not set the property to allow it, remember that no communication is sent from the service to the logger.

  5. Save the configuration, specifying the configuration destination, and restart all servers and services.