TIBCO Spotfire Automation Services Client Job Sender with OpenID authentication is not supported

TIBCO Spotfire Automation Services Client Job Sender with OpenID authentication is not supported

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Article ID: KB0082727

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Products Versions
Spotfire Automation Services 7.8, 7.9, 7.10

Description

If the TIBCO Spotfire Server authentication is OpenID connect and you run the Client Job Sender (Spotfire.Dxp.Automation.ClientJobSender.exe) with a command like the following on a command line: 

"C:\Program Files\TIBCO Spotfire\Spotfire.Dxp.Automation.ClientJobSender.exe" "http://spotfireserver:8080/" "C:\Temp\jobfile.xml"

You will get the following 'ServerException: Spotfire Server manifest contains no authentication type' error: 
Info;17-06-08 11:03:36.386;7632;Program;Starting application using command line 'http://spotfireserver:8080 C:\Temp\jobfile.xml' 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.417;7632;Program;Ssl Policy on Errors: RemoteCertificateNameMismatch 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.417;7632;Program;Tls protocols allowed: Ssl3, Tls, Tls11, Tls12 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.417;7632;Program;Creating application. 
Info;17-06-08 11:03:36.433;7632;Console;Connecting to server http://spotfireserver:8080. 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.433;7632;ServerConnectionManager;Connecting to 'http://spotfireserver:8080', using request timeout 600 seconds. 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.448;7632;ServerConnectionManager;Reading manifest from: http://spotfireserver:8080 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.448;7632;ServerConnectionManager;Configure request to http://spotfireserver:8080/spotfire/manifest using authentication NotSet. 
Error;17-06-08 11:03:36.542;7632;Console;Error executing job: 
Error;17-06-08 11:03:36.542;7632;Console;System.Runtime.Remoting.ServerException: Spotfire Server manifest contains no authentication type.     
   at Spotfire.Dxp.Automation.ClientJobSender.ServerConnectionManager.ReadManifestInformation()     
   at Spotfire.Dxp.Automation.ClientJobSender.ServerConnectionManager.Connect(Uri serverUri, Int32 webServiceRequestTimoutSeconds)     
   at Spotfire.Dxp.Automation.ClientJobSender.JobExecutionHandler.Run(CommandLineManager cmd) 
Debug;17-06-08 11:03:36.542;7632;Program;Application exit ClientExecutionError.

Resolution

This is because in TIBCO Spotfire 7.8 to 7.10, there is no support for OpenID in the Automation Services clientjobsender. The OpenID implementation that is used requires a redirect to a web page for authentication and there is no way to do that in the command line clientJobsender.

For this to work, upgrade to TIBCO Spotfire 7.11 where support for OpenID and the client job sender has been added. 
 

Issue/Introduction

This is an informational article regarding Automation Services Client Job Sender with OpenID authentication

Additional Information

Doc: Configuring the Client Job Sender for OAuth2 authentication
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