Spotfire Server: How to reset Spotfire Server Configuration Tool bootstrap password

Spotfire Server Configuration Tool bootstrap password is lost or needs to be reset.

If the Spotfire Server Configuration Tool password (bootstrap password) is lost, or if it needs to be reset, it can be changed using 'update-bootstrap' command on Spotfire Server machine. For this procedure, the only required arguments for this command is Spotfire Server's database password:

config update-bootstrap -p <spotfire-db-password> -t <new-bootstrap-password>

This command should be executed from <Spotfire-Server-install-directory>\<version>\tomcat\spotfire-bin\ directory. 

If you're not sure which database is being used by the Spotfire Server instance, this can be checked in its bootstrap file:

<Spotfire-Server-install-directory>\<version>\tomcat\webapps\spotfire\WEB-INF\bootstrap.xml
 

Note, there is no password recovery option for the bootstrap file - once it's lost it's not possible to find out the value of the old password - it's only possible to create a new password.

Documentation reference: 

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/latest/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/update-bootstrap.html