Spotfire server fails to start when hostname of the Spotfire Server machine is changed.

Spotfire Server fails to start when hostname of the Spotfire Server machine is changed.

On hostname change of Spotfire server machine, Spotfire Server service may fail to start with the following message in the catalina.log file:

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Constructor threw exception; nested exception is com.spotfire.server.ServerInitializationException: apache ignite instance is not initialized
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Make sure you recreate the bootstrap file before you restart the Spotfire Server service.


Note:  Also change all the previous hostname references to use the new hostname, in the server.xml file (in the <Spotifre-Server-home>\tomcat\conf\ folder) and in the nodemanager.properties file on the Spotfire Node Manager machine.