I have created a Tableau site for trial basis.
I do have all privilege for my site.
How do I get server administrator right on Tableau Online?
You can get a brief idea of server and site administrator from below link
https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/sites.htm
The server administrator sets up Tableau Server—they install and upgrade it, configure the services that run on Tableau Server, back it up, and perform other tasks that pertain to running Tableau Server as a whole. Server administrators also create sites as needed. (Site administrators don't have permissions to create sites.)
On local tableau server I am aware of server administrator. For Online tableau I am not aware of server administrator.
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I am a beginner of Tableau.
I have gone through the Trusted Authentication on Tableau online help.
But I found that to add the web server IP address to https://tsm-computer-name:8850.
And I found that Tableau Server domain and Ip address are also required.
So I just want to know the following questions.
Are Tableau Server and Tableau Service Management on different computers?
If so, where should TSM be installed and how?
How do I create a TSM credential (admin)?
They way I differentiate two, is TSM (Tableau Services Manager) is the backend admin account and is used for configuring and licensing Tableau Server.
The Tableau Server Administrator account is used to administer the content published to Tableau Server, user/ groups and permissions.
TSM is automatically installed when installing Tableau Server, and the account used to log into TSM is typically the account being used to remote into the machine hosting Tableau Server. I found a decent guide using their online help.
https://onlinehelp.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/sign_in_tsm.htm
Also, a good way to verify which user can/is being used for TSM is to try running a TSM command from CLI. For example, running ' TSM Status -v ' should prompt you for a password for X user, this is what you would log into the TSM UI with.
Tableau Services Manager (TSM) replaces multiple tools from previous versions of Tableau Server: Tableau Server Configuration, tabadmin command line, Tableau Server
Monitor, and Manage License Keys.
Online guide gives more details.
https://www.tableau.com/sites/default/files/whitepapers/tsm_slideshare.pdf
we use the service account to log in SQL Server (i.e domain\accountName, account password or window authentication). There's a service account dedicated for running a report. I need to change the data source for crystal report to use the service account (or using impersonation) but seem like CR can't connect to SQL Server using service or AD account. I've tried several DB connection settings but none of them were able to connect to SQL SERVER with a service account.
I wanted to embedded tableau dashboard into webapp which is hosted on Azure VM.
But i am unable to access tableau server from VM machine.
Any idea how to achieve this?
You will need an account on the Tableau Server. Everybody who needs access to view an embedded dashboard will need an account on the Tableau Server. I assume you'll use SAML or Trusted Auth?
I am new to tableau and I want to integrate tableau server in our application through Iframe, I am passing HTTP URL with authentication details like username and password but whenever I am accessing tableau it is asking for username and password.So please suggest me that how i can access tableau without redirecting to login page.
According to the Tableau community you can't do this through the URL:
There is no built-in mechanism to pass a username/password on the URL
as doing so gives "bad people" a super-duper-easy way to hack into
Tableau Server itself. As a hacker, all I'd have to do is "sit on the
wire", watch requests go to Tableau, and I could harvest everyone's
usernames and passwords. Scary stuff!
But there is a solution for built in credentials if you have a security mechanism on your end:
You might want to read up on Tableau Server's ability to do Trusted
Tickets authentication. You could essentially tell Tableau Server to
"Trust" whatever other security mechanism is authenticating your users
(I assume you have one). If you don't have another mechaism to
authenticate users before they get to Tableau Server, there's not too
much you can do.
More on Trusted Authentication from Tableau website:
Trusted authentication simply means that you have set up a trusted
relationship between Tableau Server and one or more web servers. When
Tableau Server receives requests from these trusted web servers it
assumes that your web server has handled whatever authentication is
necessary
Setting this up requires you to add the trusted IP addresses to your Tableau server. This is done by stopping tabadmin and then running the following command, followed by saving this config and restarting:
tabadmin set wgserver.trusted_hosts "<trusted IP addresses or host names>"
Once this is done you have to configure your web server so it can request tickets from Tableau server using a POST request to http://<server name>/trusted. These tickets must then be included into the script.
Hope this helps.
So I moved a FileMaker database from a machine with FM server 10 to a new machine with FM server 11.
Everything seems to be working, but the problem is it no longer prompts users for a user name and password. It seems to just log them in automatically with their windows user name.
Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Sounds like you activated external authentication on the FileMaker Server. That means that FileMaker server will try to auth using using an Active Directory or even local windows accounts on the server machine.
Look in the FileMaker Server Admin Console is you enabled External Authentication, if so, deactivate it and restart the FileMaker Service.