Prerequisites

Alation Cloud Service Applies to Alation Cloud Service instances of Alation

Customer Managed Applies to customer-managed instances of Alation

Before installing and configuring the TIBCO Spotfire OCF connector, ensure that you configure the network connectivity and set up the service account.

Configure Network Connectivity

Open outbound TCP port 80 to the TIBCO Spotfire server.

Create a Service Account

Create a service account for Alation. For more information, refer to Users in TIBCO documentation. Make sure that the service account user has administrator access.

Register an OAuth client to generate a Client ID and Client secret. See Register API Client for more information.

Permissions

Assign the following scopes to the Client ID:

  • api.soap.user-directory-service

  • api.soap.library-service

  • api.library.write

  • api.library.read

Refer to the following docs for more information:

Folders

Make sure you have access to the folders that you want to extract.

URI

URI Format

https://<Host_Name>:<Port_Number>/spotfire

Example:

https://35.170.54.133:80/spotfire