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    Limit number of visualizations a user can have open at one time

    There are cases where a user will attempt to open what is deemed an excessive number of visualizations (or even multiple instances of the same visualization). The cause of this is irrelevant (could be bad programming on a publicly viewed client, o...
    almost 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    show process id for each WP/AS instance in Monitoring&Diagnostics page

    In order to diagnose WP issue sometimes we need to collect memory dump (https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Tibco-KnowledgeArticle-Article-45793), however it's kinda difficult to know the instance's process id especially when there are many instan...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    schedule web player/automation services service/instance restart from spotfire server

    Customer encountered an issue that web player/automation services consume too much memory/temporary disk space, by restarting web player/automation services service/instance the issue was resolved so they hope spotfire server can provide a functio...
    about 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    log detail message for ClientError

    Sometimes, log like below is outputed in the server.log of Spotfire Server, that is all the information that is logged and no detail message is shown. ERROR 2021-11-16T14:15:00,799+0900 [guest8@ANONYMOUS, #B-7, #18] wp.controller.ErrorPageControll...
    over 4 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Specific role or licence for "Nodes & Services" option

    To have a specific role or a specific licence to control access for "Nodes & Services" option. This idea is similar https://ideas.tibco.com/ideas/TS-I-5549 but it talks about read only access. In my case I need to allow access an user to this ...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Please revive the error stack in the web player

    Somewhere along the recent 7.x versions, the stack trace disappeared along with the error icon in the web player. In practice, this has been a useful and helpful feature - the user can just send the stack trace along to support and troubleshooting...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Geographically dispersed Spotfire Nodes and Servers in a single collective

    The idea here is that by supporting geographically dispersed collectives we can gain several improvements: Ability to process data near the data source (e.g. if we have a large database in Europe and others in US it would be advantageous to proce...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Add a command line to start and stop the node manager services/instances from the Spotfire Server

    Many of our customers are more and more keen to use command line to control or monitor the services instead of the web interface. Some need to restart the services remotely as part of a global scheduler workflow.
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Re-enable Web Player Windows performance counters

    Up until 7.0 there were a set of Windows performance counters exposed by the web player. We used to monitor these counters using third party monitoring tools - e.g. we were able to chart the "web player MB available before swapping to disk" metric...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 1 Future Consideration

    Configure Tomcat to use log4j logging

    Modify the default Spotfire installation so that Tomcat logging uses log4j. Set up a default configuration where significant Tomcat messages are stored in the server log. The current default installation creates a mishmash of files using different...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration
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