Upgrading from Spotfire 7.0 or earlier

To upgrade to the latest version of Spotfire from Spotfire 7.0 or 6.5, perform the upgrade tasks applicable to your system.

There are some fundamental changes in the new architecture that affect how you must set up your system to make it behave as it did in the old architecture. The biggest change is that Spotfire Server now handles all external communication. That means that all web client users connect to Spotfire Server instead of a Spotfire Web Player server, and that Spotfire Automation Services jobs are run on Spotfire Server instead of on a Spotfire Automation Services server.

In the 7.5 and later architecture, Spotfire Web Player and Spotfire Automation Services are installed as services on nodes, and Spotfire Server handles the traffic to all instances of these services. When upgrading, these changes mostly affect how authentication and load balancing are set up, as compared to the old architecture.

It is recommended that you set up a Spotfire staging environment for testing before upgrading. See Setting up the test environment.

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