Unable to login to Spotfire Server Web URL, Spotfire Analyst client and Web Player eventhough Spotfire server service is up and running.

Created
October 08, 2021 23:27

Date Posted: 2018-02-28
Product: TIBCO Spotfire®

Problem:

Solution:

You may come across below error in catalina.log file on Spotfire server when you are unable to login to Spotfire Server Web URL, Spotfire Analyst client and Web Player eventhough Spotfire server service is up and running:
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Caused by: com.spotfire.server.security.trust.CAException: Error writing keystore to the certificate authority database
   at com.spotfire.server.security.trust.KeyStoreUtil.saveKeyStore(KeyStoreUtil.java:170)
   at com.spotfire.server.security.trust.KeyStoreUtil.createKeyStoreWithTrust(KeyStoreUtil.java:284)
   at com.spotfire.server.nodemanager.trust.TrustBootstrapper.createEndEntityCertificate(TrustBootstrapper.java:286)
   ... 185 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\tibco\tss\7.10.0\tomcat\..\nm\trust\keystore.p12 (Access is denied)
--------------- This issue may occur if Spotfire Service Account user by which you are running Spotfire server service does not have required access to trust folder under Spotfire installation directory.

To resolve this error, you need to provide Spotfire Service Account user full control to trust folder OR full control to Spotfire server installation directory.