Tableau Server 2018 Administration

Examine Tableau server processes and functions, covering hardware requirements, installation, high availability, and upgrades, and how gateway, web server, engines, and repository coordinate tasks.

Learn the technical specifications and installation checklist for Tableau Server, including system and hardware requirements, platform support, and standalone deployment preparation.

Install and configure Tableau Server, covering prerequisites, backup options, licensing, and authentication setups, including Active Directory integration and firewall considerations for secure deployment.

Tableau Server 2019.1 installation on Windows: configure folder permissions, run Tableau Services Manager, activate licenses with a product key, and create an administrator account.

Learn how Tableau services manager (TSM) 2019.1 centralizes server maintenance and configuration, enabling node onboarding, DSM commands, logs, licensing, topology, and email notifications.

Learn when and how to upgrade Tableau Server through a four-step process: prepare, back up, install, and test performance before production, ensuring hardware fit and feature needs.

Understand high-availability for Tableau server by distributing workload across multiple projects, configuring a primary with backups, and operating across two systems for reliability.

Explore Tableau server administration essentials for content navigation, searching, and filtering, including projects, data sources, views, publishing permissions, and user roles to manage dashboards and reports.

Explore Tableau Server 2018 admin settings, including defining the site name, user access and guest access, manage revision history, enable comments, alerts, subscriptions, performance metrics, and data refresh schedules.

Learn to create sites, set up development and production projects, import users, and assign them to groups to control access across sites.

Publish workbooks and data sources on Tableau Server 2018, control access, and explore how dashboards and data files are shared across an organization.

Explore command-line utilities for Tableau Server 2018 administration, using commands to automate tasks, log in, check status, restart services, and back up or restore configurations via APIs.

Learn how to embed Tableau dashboards into websites or blogs using the JavaScript API, with dynamic loading, filters, backend data, and responsive publishing.

Learn to transfer ownership of content on Tableau Server by selecting a new owner from the browser, saving the user, and managing project permissions when multiple users collaborate.

Learn to configure data driven alerts in Tableau Server 2018, setting conditions, selecting numeric axes, and sending automatic alerts to business owners when sales reach defined points.

Explore how revision history works by creating backups and multiple copies, designating a main copy, and managing legacy copy options for safe Tableau server administration.

Assign and manage project permissions in Tableau Server 2018 administration, detailing who can view, publish, or modify within a project, roles like project leader and viewer.

Learn how to configure extract refresh schedules and subscriptions for different data sources, set frequencies, and manage all-day refresh in Tableau Server 2018.

Learn web authoring by editing dashboards and workbooks directly in a browser on Tableau server, using drag-and-drop filters that reflect changes in real time.

Learn to implement row level security by mapping users to regional dimensions so each user only sees content for their region (Central, East Asia, South Asia).

View the Tableau server status by inspecting each process and its status, then determine and balance the number of background processes for your server.

Explore built-in admin views to monitor Tableau server performance, user activity, and usage. Analyze sessions, logins, and publications, and monitor storage to identify issues and optimize views and data sources.

Activate performance recording in settings to measure a workbook’s performance, identify slow data loading and rendering, and analyze the timeline to guide optimizations.

Learn how to generate and download log file snapshots from tableau server, locate log archives in the bin directory, adjust log levels, and share them with support for troubleshooting.