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Right now if we have clustered environment for spotfire and if you click on import/export option in library admin active servers folder is visible. If we are not using a shared folder or drive we cannot see folder of other servers. It should be possible in spotfire by default. It makes admin job easy as now you to login either to specific server or copy the zip file to active server.
For this functionality Spotfire Server relies on an existing shared folder that can be accessed by the Spotfire Servers hosts' operating system.
There are many FOSS and commercial solutions providing distributed file systems for different Spotfire Server supported operating systems.
Yes if Spotfire can provide by default distributed file system then we will not need a shared disk or a NAS.
I don't really get what you by "if that capability is available in Spotfire by default". Do you expect Spotfire to provide you with a distributed file system feature that works across multiple servers? A NAS is the right way to solve this problem. As noted in the config-import-export-directory command you can use a local disk or a shared disk, which is exactly what a NAS is.
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/7.11.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/GUID-167B090E-632F-4DAF-8BB0-03AF005808CE.html
Hi Christian,
Yes the option you suggested works in Windows but ours is a Linux environment. Even there we can share a folder from one server to all of them but what if that server goes down? For now we have mapped NAS drive and it is working fine but if that capability is available in Spotfire by default it would be great.
This is already supported, just use the config-import-export-directory command to set the folder to a Windows Share UNC path and all servers from your cluster will use the same import/export folder.
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/7.11.0/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/GUID-153707D3-2205-4A9B-8131-B6EEFD13CC12.html