Installing Tableau Server: Part 1 - Windows Basic Installation Tableau Tutorial

0:00Hey, in today's video, we're going to be

0:02installing Tableau Server.

0:03Now I get asked to do this all the time.

0:05More server content, more server content,

0:07more server content.

0:08We're going to be doing it today, and I'm

0:11going to be showing you a vanilla install

0:12onto my PC.

0:14Now, the specs are good enough to run a

0:16basic setup for Tableau Server.

0:18In fact, I've come across organizations who

0:20run their server

0:21on less specs than I'm about to give my

0:23computer today.

0:24But nonetheless, you should bear in mind

0:27that this is purely being done

0:28just to show you the process.

0:30A lot of the things we're going to miss out

0:32just are difficult to set up

0:33unless we're actually in an enterprise

0:35setting.

0:35So we'll try and describe that all the way

0:37through.

0:38But just bear that in mind as we go through

0:40these things.

0:40I'm going to just basically try and give

0:42you an insight into the installation

0:44so you can at least start to see what's

0:46involved

0:46and where the complexity starts to come in.

0:49So let's get stuck in.

0:50OK, so we're here. We're doing a screen

0:52share.

0:53There's a couple of things to explain.

0:55I used to follow a guide called Everybody's

0:57Install Guide,

0:58and this used to be, I think, the go to

1:00resource.

1:00Now, as of 2021.4, a few changes were made

1:04to the Tableau Server install process.

1:06And if you're an admin and you've used this

1:07guide in the past,

1:08you'll notice that if you go to it today,

1:10it's essentially pushing you towards Table

1:13au Online.

1:13Now, Tableau Online has been a big part of

1:15Tableau's growth.

1:16A lot of Tableau Online instances have come

1:18online recently.

1:19And a lot of organizations have gone from

1:22Tableau Server to Tableau Online.

1:24I don't have the exact numbers on this.

1:26In fact, I know a place where I can get the

1:27numbers of people

1:28that were on Tableau Online at a certain

1:30point in time.

1:31I'll try and find that and put it on screen

1:33.

1:33But it used to be actually a really, really

1:36good guide

1:37for getting people to sort of work through

1:39the process.

1:39And if you go to it today, the issue you'll

1:42find is it's actually pointed

1:43to the most recent version of the

1:45documentation.

1:45So what you can actually do is you can go

1:47to the Tableau Help pages.

1:48Now, I get to this very easily.

1:50You go to resources, you go to support and

1:52collect Tableau Help.

1:53It takes you to this page.

1:55Once you're on this page, you can select

1:57the version of Tableau

1:58that you want to use.

1:58And for this video, I'll explain why a

2:01little later on.

2:02I'm going to install 2021.3 and I'm going

2:06to go to Tableau Server on Windows.

2:07This is the variant of Tableau Server that

2:09we're going to install.

2:10You can install it on Linux as well.

2:12And Linux itself has two variants.

2:14So there's actually three variants of Table

2:16au Server

2:16if you're installing it on premise.

2:19And Tableau Online is the managed solution.

2:21Essentially, it's exactly the same, but

2:23Tableau host it on AWS.

2:25So if you go to the Help pages, select your

2:28version,

2:29go to the type of Tableau where you want to

2:32run, open the documentation.

2:34You can actually go to the planning stages

2:37here

2:38and it will actually show you how to work

2:39through that.

2:39So if you go here to plan your deployment,

2:42you'll see that you've got all the basic

2:43guides here as well.

2:44So it's just another way of getting the

2:46same help,

2:47but it's specific for your version.

2:49The next thing I want to explain is my

2:51setup.

2:52So it's a little bit of inception going on

2:54here.

2:54So I have a PC on my desktop.

2:58My desktop, I have a PC full stop and it

3:01has 64 gig of RAM.

3:02It's got 16 physical cores, and that means

3:06it's got 32 threads of compute.

3:07It's an AMD processor

3:09and it's it's actually a PC I use for video

3:12editing and gaming.

3:13And I basically what I've done is I've

3:15created a hard drive on it.

3:16I've partitioned the hard drive and I've

3:18set aside 200 gig for this demo.

3:21And what I've also done on my computers, I

3:24've enabled something

3:25called virtualization. Virtualization is

3:27important

3:27if you're going to be trying to run

3:29specific types of software on your computer

3:32.

3:32And in my case, I'm actually virtualizing

3:35Windows Server on Windows 11.

3:37So let me show you that setup first.

3:40You see that I've got remote desktop.

3:41I'm just basically going to swipe across to

3:44my PC.

3:45So this is now my PC. And when we get there

3:47,

3:47you can see that I already have a virtual

3:49machine running.

3:50And this virtual machine is called Tableau

3:51Server on the name of my computer.

3:53Now, the way I'm actually virtualizing

3:56Windows Server on Windows 11

3:58is because I'm using something called Hyper

4:01-V Manager.

4:01Now, Hyper-V manages a virtualization

4:03technology on Windows.

4:05You can use it on I think it's any pro

4:08version of Windows.

4:09You can essentially use this.

4:10And on there, you can see that I've created

4:12a virtual machine,

4:13which is called Tableau Server.

4:15And the simple thing I've done now, I'll

4:16just show you the exact process I did.

4:18I just went in here, created a new virtual

4:20machine.

4:21I pointed it to the ISO image of the

4:24operating system.

4:26So you can see here, I can give it a name.

4:29I won't actually use this instance.

4:31We'll go to next.

4:32You can give it different generation types.

4:34Now, what I've done here is I've

4:35deliberately selected generation two

4:38because Tableau Server only runs on 64 bit,

4:40so we don't need any of the 32 bit stuff.

4:43I've hit next. I've given it a set amount

4:45of RAM.

4:46Now, what is interesting about this is I

4:48actually tried this installation

4:50with the latest prerelease of Tableau

4:53Server.

4:53That's 2022.2.

4:56I also tried it with 2021.

4:59And the issue there is that it won't

5:02install unless you have 64 gig of RAM.

5:04Now, I have 64 gig of RAM, except for when

5:07the virtualization technologies

5:09goes to request all 64 gig of RAM.

5:11It can't have it all.

5:13And essentially, the Tableau installer

5:15seems to be able to sense

5:16that the virtualization technology is only

5:18virtualizing the memory.

5:20It can kind of see that the virtualization

5:22software doesn't have

5:23all 64 gig of RAM available to it.

5:26So essentially, the installation fails.

5:28I get an error and you're not actually able

5:29to install Tableau Server.

5:31So what I've had to do for this demo, I've

5:33gone back to 21.3,

5:36which is the version that still supported

5:38less than 64 gig of RAM.

5:40As of 21.4, it actually requires more.

5:43And the way I know that if I actually go to

5:45I have so many tabs open here, but let's go

5:48and search Tableau Server

5:50minimum specs.

5:53I can explain this as well.

5:56We've got the minimum hardware requirements

5:57.

5:57And you can see here that look, it says,

5:59look,

5:59the absolute minimum you need is 64 bit, 4

6:01core, 16 gig, 15 gig.

6:03Now, this is this is the right

6:06documentation.

6:07I'm on Tableau Help for Windows.

6:09I'm on the latest version.

6:10It says current in the menu and it says

6:12this is what you can run.

6:13But I don't think this is actually correct,

6:15because if you try and install anything on

6:17less, it just doesn't work.

6:18And so you can see here that this is the

6:20minimum recommended spec

6:22that it actually checks against.

6:23So I have plenty of hard drive space. I've

6:25got 200.

6:25I do have 64 gig, but it's not able to get

6:29more.

6:29And you can see that 32 gig is only going

6:32to be able to work

6:34on versions prior to 21.4.

6:37And that's basically why I'm using 21.3.

6:41For anything above 21.4, you have to have

6:4364 gig.

6:44I actually do have eight cores in the Table

6:47au world.

6:48When you have virtual cores, you're

6:50supposed to half that number.

6:51I think this comes from AWS and the way

6:53that that infrastructure is set up.

6:55But typically that's a recommendation.

6:57So if you're going for eight physical cores

6:59and you're virtualizing

7:00Windows Server, then you're going to be

7:02looking for 16 virtual cores,

7:04at least for this to work.

7:07And yeah, you've got a couple of other bits

7:09and specs here about,

7:10you know, processes, but that's all going

7:12to be fine

7:12because I'm running a pretty up to date

7:14computer.

7:14So that should all be fine.

7:16So let's go back to the virtualization.

7:18Now you can set all this up, configure the

7:20networking

7:20and you can choose the ISO.

7:23And essentially what I've got on my desktop

7:25is a Windows server image.

7:27I give it the ISO.

7:29And once that's done, it boots up the

7:31instance

7:31and we basically have our virtual machine.

7:33So I'll go and cancel that.

7:34That's what's here, Tableau Server.

7:36You can see that it's running.

7:37It's got 40 gig of RAM assigned to it.

7:39So that, you know, that's going to be

7:41plenty for our purposes.

7:42We're not going to have it slow down on us.

7:45And later down the line, when I start doing

7:47things like testing

7:48various technologies on it, it's going to

7:51be absolutely fine.

7:52You can see that it's been running for nine

7:54hours, 40 minutes.

7:55So everything is working great.

7:58I just wanted it to do things like pick up

8:00updates.

8:00In fact, I can see them sort of saying hi

8:02to me over here.

8:03So if I go over here to the little updates,

8:05you can see that

8:06those have all picked up and it's basically

8:08started

8:08doing the kind of things servers will do.

8:10I won't actually do these updates.

8:12I have a funny feeling this might come back

8:14to bite me.

8:14So what I might do is do this later, but I

8:16'm just going to hope that this is OK.

8:18We can do the vanilla install and

8:19everything should work fine.

8:21So that's how I've set this up.

8:23I'm using Hyper-V manager, I'm virtualizing

8:25, virtualizing it,

8:26and I'm using twenty one dot three to show

8:29you this process. OK,

8:30so we're going to minimize that.

8:33I've explained all of that.

8:34You can follow along, by the way, and do

8:35this.

8:36There was a couple of things I had to do,

8:38actually.

8:38That's probably worth mentioning.

8:40If I go to Windows PowerShell admin and I

8:44just hit the plus icon.

8:46Let's see. You can see that I was here

8:47previously.

8:48Let's go to command prompt, actually.

8:51So let's just just do this.

8:53Research CMD command prompt.

8:57Let's run as administrator.

9:00Let's see. Does it have the history?

9:02Doesn't have the history. So that's fine.

9:04One of the issues I had when I was virtual

9:05izing this technology, in fact,

9:07I think I might be doing it in the wrong

9:08place.

9:09So let's do this.

9:10Here we go. I was doing in the wrong place.

9:12So let's go here.

9:14And yeah, when I was virtualizing this, if

9:16you're trying to do this yourself

9:18and you followed my guidelines so far, when

9:20you install Hyper-V manager

9:22and you get everything going,

9:23you do need to go into the BIOS settings of

9:26your motherboard

9:27and enable it to work with virtualization

9:29software.

9:30And the reason I knew this is if you type

9:32this command in,

9:33iBCDEdit and you hit enter, it gives you

9:36all the sort of configurations

9:38for your computer.

9:40And essentially, you want to make sure that

9:41this label here

9:43that I've highlighted, Hypervisor launch

9:45type auto is actually on auto.

9:47And if it still doesn't work, go to

9:49motherboard settings,

9:50enable virtualization and yeah, it should

9:52be good to go.

9:53Anyway, so off topic, let's just go and

9:56install Tableau Server.

9:57So here we are. We're on Windows.

9:59I've downloaded the right version of Table

10:01au Server.

10:03I've got everything set up.

10:04I've also downloaded Google Chrome.

10:06Interestingly, Internet Explorer, which is

10:08what's on Windows Server 2019

10:10is the version I'm running.

10:11Yeah, that's not supported anymore,

10:13actually, because of the security

10:15capability

10:16that they basically stopped updating

10:17Internet Explorer.

10:18And so because of that, Edge and Google

10:21Chrome

10:22are going to be what you need on the

10:23machine.

10:23So download Google Chrome.

10:24That's the one everyone uses and you should

10:26be good to go.

10:26And you can set it as your default browser.

10:28But what I just tend to do is not bother

10:30with that.

10:30And when it tells me that Internet Explorer

10:32is not going to work,

10:33I copy the URL, open it in Google Chrome

10:35and pretty much carry on from there.

10:36So let's start this.

10:38Let's double click the installer for Table

10:40au Server.

10:40I've installed 20, I've grabbed 21.3.9,

10:44which is the last available installer.

10:47The .10 version was pulled for a security

10:49patch, I think.

10:50So that's why that's no longer there.

10:52But we'll just wait for this to run.

10:54And when it runs, you can see that it pops

10:56up this nice little pop up,

10:57asks you to read the license terms and so

10:59on and so forth.

11:01And we can just go ahead and proceed.

11:02Now, in most organizations, what you

11:04typically do

11:05is you don't install Tableau on the

11:07operating system disk.

11:09So you can see here that says C drive.

11:11In most organizations, you don't do this

11:13because what you don't want

11:14is to put the software on the same hard

11:17drive as your operating system.

11:19This means like when you do something like

11:22a patch

11:23or any change to the operating system, you

11:25want to sort of separate

11:26that from your software.

11:28And so that's why you don't do it on the C

11:30drive.

11:30But for this video, I will do on the C

11:32drive

11:32because I haven't got another disk attached

11:34to the virtual machine.

11:35And I've also set a specific disk aside for

11:38this purpose.

11:39So my disk on my computer is only going to

11:43be for this particular server.

11:44And all the virtualization disks are on

11:47that machine.

11:47So we're just going to leave it for C for

11:49now.

11:50But you can go ahead and change it.

11:51Tableau does support installing in non

11:53standard locations.

11:54But you have to bear that in mind every

11:57time you work with it.

11:58So if we just search here, Tableau

12:00server, non standard installation location.

12:07Let's see what comes up.

12:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.

12:11Install path for Tableau server.

12:12You can see here there's a actual there's a

12:15community process.

12:15See if they're asking about it.

12:17So they're they're talking about different

12:19ones.

12:19Here you go.

12:21Move Tableau server to another drive.

12:23There's actually a good thing.

12:25Now, this is for after the installation.

12:27But this talks about moving it and

12:29basically getting it all to work.

12:32What you have to do is obliterate it, take

12:34it back up,

12:35put it somewhere else, essentially, and

12:37then carry on with the installation

12:38as normal.

12:39So there is a little bit of a guide here.

12:40You can figure that out.

12:42But that's pretty much all you need to know

12:44.

12:44So let's go ahead and hit next.

12:45Everything is good.

12:46We're not installing a node.

12:48A node is essentially another server

12:51helping the main server.

12:52That's the way to think of it.

12:54This makes more sense when we get to top

12:55ology a little later on.

12:56Topology is just basically how you've

12:58configured the different processes

13:00to run on the server, the number of

13:03processes and which nodes they run on.

13:05In this case, we're just installing on one

13:07computer.

13:08So this is known as a single node

13:10installation.

13:11So we'll go ahead, create a new Tableau

13:13server installation.

13:14And this is a single node installation.

13:16Now, the next thing we'll get is a product

13:18activation type.

13:19Now, this server ATR is a new feature.

13:23So let's go.

13:24We're going to be opening up a lot of tabs.

13:25So let's go server ATR Tableau.

13:28By the way, I do this all the time.

13:31It's really fascinating.

13:33People ask, how do you come across all this

13:35knowledge?

13:35I just Google the hell out of it.

13:38Right. And it's funny because if you Google

13:40a lot, Google learns your habits

13:42and it learns kind of what you're looking

13:44for.

13:45So when I just type in three phrases,

13:47it's actually very good at giving me what I

13:50want on the first hit.

13:52It's kind of one of those things where I've

13:54seen people

13:54Google the same things as I've Googled, but

13:57it's not giving them the same results

13:58because they've just not got in the habit

14:00of using Google for those things.

14:02So we've got a guide here.

14:04Activate Tableau server using authorization

14:07to run ATR service.

14:08Let's have a read of this so you can use

14:11the server authorization to run

14:12service to activate Tableau server deployed

14:15on premises,

14:16cloud container or virtual environments.

14:19The ATR service achieves this by providing

14:21short term

14:22leases of configurable duration ATR

14:24duration

14:25that ties the license to the device until

14:27product expiration date is met.

14:29ATR handles activation capacity tracking so

14:32that when there is an underlying

14:34hardware change, maximum activation errors

14:37don't occur.

14:37So basically, this is a technology that's

14:40managing licenses.

14:42So things don't get messed up. That's the

14:43way to think of it.

14:44It's a lot better than what used to happen

14:46before,

14:46especially when it came to disaster

14:48recovery, because essentially previously

14:50what happened was if you had like a

14:52disaster recovery event,

14:53you didn't know when the last time the

14:56server had checked for licenses.

14:58And so you had anything between minutes to

15:01hours to solve the problem.

15:04And because you don't know when that check

15:05was happening,

15:06you could end up getting to a position

15:08where your server is now not license.

15:10And then you get into this sort of death

15:11loop where it's just easy

15:12to restore a backup from yesterday than it

15:14is to actually fix the problem.

15:16So that's something to be aware of.

15:19It's a really cool technology.

15:20What I'll probably do is I'll probably do a

15:22video on this specifically.

15:23I've actually talked to the product manager

15:26for this feature as well.

15:27So I know a bit about it, but I think it

15:29deserves its own video

15:30just to explain what it is, how it works

15:32and all these quirks.

15:33You can see here that it's explaining

15:34basically on the ATR duration

15:36and how exactly that works.

15:38Long story short, you have two options when

15:41you activate Tableau here.

15:42So you can either let this service manage

15:44it for you or you can't.

15:47And if you don't, you're kind of

15:49responsible for managing the licenses.

15:50And it's licensing essentially.

15:52It's up to you to activate and activate

15:55licenses.

15:55And in a disaster recovery scenario, you're

15:58kind of responsible

15:59for making sure you're on top of things.

16:01Whereas if you use server ATR, it's a

16:03little bit smarter

16:03at managing this and making sure everything

16:05's taken care of.

16:06So that's that's sort of a high level view

16:08of it.

16:08I don't want to get too bogged down in it.

16:10I'll do a proper video because I know that

16:12explanation wasn't great.

16:13So let's use ATR for product activation.

16:16And what we can do is see the outcome of

16:18this later on.

16:19So let's go ahead and install.

16:21And that's the first part of the install at

16:23this point.

16:24Normally you can go grab maybe a tea or

16:26coffee and come back

16:28because this takes a little bit of time.

16:30And the next step is kind of different.

16:32So what is it doing at the moment?

16:34Well, if I open up the hard drive and let's

16:38just go to the computer

16:39and have a look, what is essentially done,

16:41it's essentially doing

16:43is if you go to the disk and we go to

16:45program files,

16:46we can see it's created a folder called

16:49Tableau.

16:49And you can see you've got different things

16:51here, drivers, connectors.

16:53And if I go into the Tableau server folder,

16:55you'll see that it's basically

16:57creating lots of different folders and

16:58packages on here.

17:00So it's literally going through the job of

17:02putting everything

17:02where it needs to put it.

17:04And so what we'll do is we just make that

17:06window smaller.

17:06And you can see that it's just going

17:08through.

17:08Now, it's important to note that the

17:10version this number here,

17:1220, 21, 3203141214.

17:17This is what will appear in lots of file

17:19names when you generate logs,

17:21when you generate anything, because that's

17:22the exact version number.

17:23When you run some of the scripts like

17:25deleting the whole entire server,

17:27that number will also be used as well.

17:30So it's a number that you'll see a lot.

17:32But the only thing you need to know is that

17:34it just refers

17:35to the Tableau server version.

17:37But for now, all we can do is wait to the

17:40next step

17:41when we start to talk about the processes

17:44and the installation, the actual proper

17:46installation.

17:47This is just basically putting all the

17:49folders in the right place.

17:50If you were doing something like an upgrade

17:52or a backup,

17:53this is another part of the process

17:55that you can actually do whilst the server

17:57is running.

17:58Essentially, what this is doing is just

17:59creating the folder

18:00for the version that you want to run.

18:03And it can do all of this before you

18:04actually carry out the upgrade

18:06or whatever you need to do.

18:07So you can actually sort of run this all

18:09ahead of time

18:10so that when you've got service downtime to

18:12do the upgrade,

18:12everything's already there and you're not

18:14having to sort of mess around

18:15with all of this stuff.

18:16So that's another sort of small tip to be

18:17aware of.

18:18But nonetheless, yeah, we'll just give this

18:20a good bit of time

18:22and there'll be bits where I'll speed it up

18:24or skip ahead.

18:25I won't just leave you watching a progress

18:27bar.

18:28And I don't want to just talk endlessly

18:29without some context on the screen.

18:31So let's come back when this is done and we

18:33'll carry on to the next step.

18:34One thing I thought I'd show you while it's

18:37doing this is this number.

18:38It should have put some files into the

18:40folder.

18:40So if we go back into the folder that we

18:44had open,

18:44we go into C drive program files, Tableau

18:47Tableau server.

18:49Let's go to packages.

18:50As you can see, all the packages relating

18:53to this version

18:53have that number on the end.

18:55So that's what that's what this number is.

18:57If you ever see it and you can see it as a

18:58folder for pretty much each process,

19:00each activity on the server, a process is

19:02essentially a task.

19:03If you think of a server as a server, just

19:07a computer.

19:08And on that computer, you have a bunch of

19:09different tasks.

19:10If I extend the analogy a bit further, let

19:13's take Google.

19:14When you go and search something on Google,

19:16there is a server somewhere which takes

19:18your request.

19:18There's probably another process on that

19:21server that does indexing

19:22and looks at web pages and make sure

19:23everything's in the right place.

19:25There is probably another server at Google

19:28that's responsible for serving videos from

19:30YouTube.

19:30All these servers have different purposes,

19:33and each of those servers

19:34will have smaller processes that do

19:36specific things

19:37for each of those servers.

19:39In Tableau's speak, we have a bunch of

19:41different processes,

19:42and each of them essentially do get a

19:44folder here,

19:45but it's not quite a one to one match.

19:48Some of these folders don't have named

19:50processes that we see.

19:51Some of them are sort of services that we

19:53don't know anything about.

19:55But nonetheless, it puts all these folders

19:56here.

19:57And if you go into each and every one of

19:58them,

19:58there'll be content in there related to

20:00that process.

20:01In perfect timing, I couldn't have time

20:04that better,

20:05that installation that we saw before, the

20:09window's finished

20:09and it's now loaded up Internet Explorer

20:13for the last bit of the installation.

20:14So what I'm going to do is I'm actually

20:15going to copy this.

20:16I'm going to minimize this. I'm going to

20:18open up and in Chrome.

20:19And for the record, anyone can actually

20:22find this URL.

20:23It's essentially just accessing the server.

20:27Now, this is sort of weird to sort of

20:30explain.

20:31So let me say this is a default.

20:32Actually, I said I wouldn't.

20:33And then actually, I'm just going to do

20:35that now.

20:36Save me a lot of hassle.

20:37So the way this is working is essentially

20:39this is the name of the computer.

20:41It's the name of the server.

20:43And so all I'm doing is accessing the

20:44server itself.

20:45Another way to think of this is this is

20:47local host.

20:48Local host is just essentially the web

20:50address for where you currently are,

20:53the computer you're currently on.

20:55And this colon 8850 is a standard thing.

20:58If you add that to any server URL, as long

21:00as you're accessing

21:01the actual server that's running that

50:27system, you should be able to log in.

21:05And this is called the Web Interface for

21:07Tableau Services Manager.

21:08Hence, you can see here, sign in to Tableau

21:11Services Manager

21:12and Tableau Services Manager is essentially

21:14responsible for controlling

21:16and orchestrating, setting up and

21:18organizing server.

21:19Now, if you go in here, you've got

21:21obviously a log in.

21:23And this gets me every single time.

21:26Every single time this gets me.

21:28This is looking for the log in, not your

21:30enterprise log in,

21:31not necessarily the log in for the service

21:34or Tableau itself.

21:35This is looking for the administrator log

21:39in for the server that you're on.

21:41So this can mean two things.

21:44You might be a named administrator on a

21:46bunch of servers.

21:47And in order to be that administrator, you

21:50're added to add an

21:51an administrative group.

21:53So a group of people that have admin access

21:56, administrator access to the server.

21:58If you're one of those people, you could

22:00use whatever log in

22:01you use to administer servers here and it

22:04would log you in.

22:05In my setup, it's slightly different.

22:07I've just created a username and password

22:09for this whole Windows server.

22:11And that is actually what I'm using here.

22:13So you can see that it's already typed in.

22:15So we'll just go ahead and sign in and boom

22:17, we'll go straight in.

22:19So that's basically what it is.

22:20It's not your personal username.

22:22It has to be a username that's specifically

22:26been allowed

22:26to be an administrator on this, which might

22:29mean a run as account on the server.

22:31It might mean your own log in, which is

22:34going to be impersonating

22:35an administrator, which then would also

22:37work.

22:38You just got to bear those in mind.

22:40Now, for this part of the setup, it wants

22:42you to set up a couple of things.

22:44And this is very important because for

22:46something like the identity store,

22:47you can't change this after you've

22:49installed.

22:50If you choose local authentication, you

22:52want Tableau server to manage

22:53the authentication for you.

22:55You can't then change it later on.

22:57The only way to do that is to buy away the

22:59whole thing.

22:59Take it back up.

23:00The only contains your content.

23:02Configure the whole server again, this time

23:05with Active Directory,

23:06whatever else you want to use, and then put

23:08the content back on.

23:09But you have to get this right at

23:11installation.

23:11Super important.

23:13In my case, I just choose local.

23:15And when you choose local, it sort of skips

23:17you down.

23:17And it gives you this sort of nice

23:19explanation on the right as well,

23:20telling you what's what so you can hover

23:21over these.

23:22And it basically gives you that.

23:24I'm going to use NT Authority Network

23:25Service.

23:26This is a standard default.

23:27I'm not going to mess around with this and

23:29the gateway port number,

23:31everything else, I'm just going to leave it

23:32as is.

23:33You've got the option of including samples.

23:35Now, this is an option.

23:37And essentially what this will do is it

23:38will install

23:39the default Tableau server samples.

23:41Now, some people switch this off, but I

23:44reckon leaving it on

23:45because it's a really good way of testing

23:47that the server works,

23:48because it means you've already got a work

23:49book.

23:50You've already got something to go to and

23:51browse to.

23:52And you can always manage who can see these

23:55anyway once you're done.

23:56I also use them as a baseline for testing.

23:58If you want to test a workbook, you can

24:00test it on your desktop

24:01and you can test the sample workbooks on

24:03the server itself.

24:04Check the performance.

24:05And if one is super slow, you know

24:07something is wrong.

24:08So I also use this for benchmarking.

24:10These workbooks are the same for pretty

24:11much everyone.

24:12So it's a good way of testing things as

24:14well.

24:14So let's initialize this and let's get

24:16going.

24:20Once we've initialized, Tableau server sets

24:23off to work

24:24and you kind of see this command line sort

24:26of set up.

24:27But essentially it's basically listing

24:29everything that it's doing.

24:30It's going through, it's running the

24:32installation,

24:32and it's going to go through and try and

24:34check as many things

24:35as it possibly can and then get on with the

24:37job of setting the server up.

24:39Now, this is different from the

24:40installation

24:41because the installation puts a bunch of

24:43files on the computer.

24:44The initialization is making sure that it

24:48takes all those settings

24:49we've just entered and it sets those up and

24:51starts the services

24:53that support Tableau server.

24:54So it's a bit like let's say you buy a car

24:58and you buy a kit car and you get the box

25:01of stuff.

25:02Now, the installation is getting everything

25:04built.

25:04And maybe it's a Lego model. Let's use that

25:06instead.

25:07The installation in the Lego model analogy

25:09is just getting everything out of the box

25:10and building the model.

25:11The initialization is then making sure it

25:14works and everything

25:15is actually going to move and do whatever G

25:17izmo is deciding to do.

25:19So that's that's basically what's going on

25:21here.

25:22And you get a progress bar.

25:24Now, for some people, they want to check

25:26what's going on.

25:27And what Tableau has already done, which I

25:29haven't covered yet,

25:30is that this interface is called Tableau

25:32Services Manager.

25:33This is a GUI.

25:35It's like a graphical user interface for

25:37Tableau Services Manager.

25:38But Tableau Services Manager also has a

25:41command line interface.

25:43Let me just go back to Google and we can

25:46see TSM interface.

25:48Tableau Server. OK.

25:50And if you go to introducing Tableau

25:53Services Manager,

25:54this probably won't have it.

25:56This is a webinar, so unfortunately, let me

25:59down there.

25:59But TSM, according to Tableau Services

26:03Manager Web UI,

26:04you can see this will take you to the Web

26:06UI.

26:07But if we go to the TSM command line

26:09reference,

26:10you'll see that you have a command line

26:12interface as well.

26:13And in order to access that, you can just

26:16go to command prompt and run it.

26:18So let's go ahead and do that.

26:21I don't know why I opened a folder.

26:22I think I was thinking too much about

26:24getting it to it from a folder.

26:26So let's do this. Let's just go command

26:30prompt.

26:30I could do PowerShell and everything works,

26:34but I'm just going to do it here because

26:35this is what's familiar.

26:36OK, so if I go to the administrator here in

26:38command prompt,

26:39let me do it over here below so you can see

26:42the progress bar.

26:43That's I don't know.

26:44There's never going to be a perfect place

26:45for this.

26:45Let's just do it over here.

26:47So let's type in TSM and you hit enter.

26:50What Tableau Server should have done is

26:53would have installed a path

26:54variable that allows you to just type TSM

26:57wherever you are on the server.

26:58And you get this so you can see you get the

27:01command line help guide for TSM.

27:03And one of the things you can do is you can

27:05check the status of the server.

27:06So I like to do that as a very simple way

27:08of making sure that TSM is working.

27:10So TSM status.

27:12And this will tell me the status of the

27:14server.

27:15And this particular request, I've asked for

27:17a very simple status check,

27:19which is just going to tell me, is it

27:20running or not?

27:21You can see status is degraded.

27:23If you want a more verbose one, you can say

27:25TSM status

27:27-V and that's a sort of short acronym for

27:31saying, hey,

27:32tell me the status of the server, but be

27:34detailed.

27:34And it gives you this longer list of items

27:37that essentially

27:39tell you the status of every single process

27:41on the server.

27:43Now, earlier on, remember, I said that

27:44Tableau server had processes.

27:46Well, these are those processes.

27:48So you can see here that we have.

27:50Let's just go through this few items on the

27:52list.

27:52Gateway, we have one.

27:55And the way it counts these processes is

27:58like a computer.

27:59So zero is actually one and one is two.

28:01So you'll see gateway zero gateway number

28:04one is stopped here where we have two.

28:06You'll see V SQL Server zero and V SQL

28:08Server one.

28:09That means V SQL one and two.

28:11So if you want, you can add one to these

28:14numbers

28:14and that will tell you the number of the

28:16process.

28:16But it's always going to start from zero

28:19and you can see a whole list of them.

28:20OK, now, if you're wondering how and how do

28:22you know all these TSM commands?

28:24Well, that's also easy.

28:26If you just search, I'll do it in a new

28:28search TSM Tableau server commands.

28:32Again, TSM command line reference actually

28:36takes to the same page.

28:37And if I go to the commands here on the

28:39right hand side, you'll see a list.

28:41And this list shows you all the things you

28:43can do with TSM.

28:44Now, some of these can be done through the

28:47Web interface, the GUI

28:48that you can see that's essentially what's

28:50running here.

28:51OK, so you can do some of these once it's

28:54up and running.

28:54At the moment, it's initializing.

28:56So we have no configurations whatsoever.

28:58But the most powerful features, the most

29:01powerful control,

29:02the things you can automate, the things you

29:04can sort of script.

29:04Everything is here in the command line

29:06interface.

29:07So if we just go through a few of them,

29:09you could do things like maintenance.

29:11So if I go over into maintenance, you'll

29:13see this includes all the backups,

29:15all the logs, all the cleaning up.

29:17Everything is all here.

29:19OK, if I go back, let's see.

29:22The settings is a good example.

29:23So TSM settings, you can export the

29:25settings and import the settings.

29:26And it goes and grabs a bunch of things

29:29from different places,

29:30and it puts them all into that setup farm.

29:32You can check the topology.

29:34OK, so you can see, hey, look, what's my

29:36current topology?

29:38Show me the list, show me the nodes, and it

29:40'll give you like a list again

29:41all through the command line interface.

29:43So TSM is a pretty powerful thing.

29:46And actually, it's one of those things that

29:48, you know,

29:48there's only these number of commands.

29:50And actually, once you've used Tableau

29:52server for long enough,

29:53you should know what these are.

29:54Some of them just stick because you use

29:56them all the time.

29:56I'm a bit rusty because I haven't used a

29:59server in a really long time.

30:01But nonetheless, this is basically what you

30:03can lean on nearly all the time.

30:05It's not going anywhere.

30:05You're supposed to use the help guide when

30:07working with server.

30:08So you're going to be pretty much good to

30:10go.

30:10So the one I use was TSM status.

30:12You can see here I typed in hyphen V, which

30:14is essentially the same way

30:16of saying, hey, give me this in a verbose

30:18manner.

30:18And it tells you what you'll get back and

30:20what you can expect to see.

30:22And yeah, all the meanings of everything.

30:24So that's how it's how I know what to do

30:26here.

30:27I'm not a genius.

30:27I'm just I'm just spending time in the help

30:30guide trying to help myself.

30:32Now, one of the things you can do whilst

30:34the server is installing.

30:36So let's go back.

30:37It's still running 57 complete.

30:39We haven't got long to do this.

30:40Is this one? This is a command that a

30:42colleague, Ivana,

30:43Ivana is a colleague of mine at the

30:44information lab.

30:45She told me that this exists and I did know

30:47this existed.

30:48So it's another sort of great example of

30:50just getting familiar with these.

30:51Just makes life a lot easier.

30:53So TSM jobs will tell you all the jobs that

30:55are currently running on the server.

30:57So let's go ahead and ask the server.

30:59Hey, TSM jobs list TSM jobs is the command

31:04list is the request.

31:05So let's go hit list.

31:07And what it will do is it will show me the

31:09jobs that the server is doing.

31:10So you can see here, initialize the server

31:13job is running status.

31:14This job is currently running and that's

31:16pretty much it.

31:17It's the first job.

31:18Hence, it's got an idea of zero and it's

31:21pretty much.

31:21Yeah, it's right.

31:22There's not much more to say than that.

31:24You can cancel jobs if there's something

31:26going on and you want to cancel it.

31:27And you can do that reconnect.

31:30What does reconnect do?

31:31Reconnect an asynchronous job to displays

31:33progress.

31:34If no job ID is specified, it reconnects

31:36the last job.

31:37Interesting. So let's just try this.

31:39Let's see. I mean, it's not it's not

31:42actually doing anything.

31:43I don't think it's going to do anything

31:45that rageous.

31:45So let's see what it does.

31:48Here's some jobs reconnect.

31:50See what it does. Reconnecting. Cool.

31:52So oh, nice. So this is really cool.

31:55So what it basically does is it

31:57I think it's basically just giving me a

31:58readout of what I'm saying here.

32:00And it's basically giving me the different

32:02percentages as we go through.

32:04So you can see it says that 72 percent

32:06enabling services needed for server

32:08initialization job ID zero.

32:10Time is 150 minutes.

32:12So basically, if nothing works in two hours

32:15, it's going to stop the whole thing.

32:16So it's waiting for the server to finish.

32:19We're at 73 percent, 73 percent.

32:21So this is pretty much the last step in the

32:23installation.

32:24Everything is pretty much good to go.

32:25I've seen this before, but I didn't realize

32:27this was the command.

32:29And actually, it's updating in real time.

32:30So if you want a more verbose version than

32:33this one,

32:34because here you can see it saying

32:37connecting to the backup restore service.

32:39That's exactly what we're seeing here.

32:41So this is a this is almost an exact read

32:43out of what we're seeing in the command line

32:45.

32:45So it's nice to have it validated in two

32:48places.

32:49That's pretty cool. And yeah, if you're

32:51learning any other job,

32:52you can use this to actually get into the

32:55the live status of the task being asked.

32:59OK, so let's let this run.

33:02Running initialized elastic server.

33:04OK, cool. So it's pretty much ready to go.

33:08We are really at the final stages here and

33:11we should be almost done.

33:13We can log into a server and I can show you

33:14the content.

33:15We can mess around a bit with the topology.

33:17And yeah, that should be should be it done.

33:19So let's go back and let's see what

33:22commands we've done.

33:25Here's some commands. I'm going to leave

33:26this open

33:26because I'm going to need to basically

33:28reference these later

33:29when I edit the video.

33:30So I'll leave them open so I know what

33:33links I've used.

33:34And if I go to install and configure,

33:38this is actually a good thing to go to.

33:40Again, I think I'm in the right version, 21

33:42.3.

33:43So we've got the the little bullet point

33:46list that says everything you need to do.

33:47So before you install minimum hardware

33:49requirements, we did all this install TSM.

33:52We did this activate Tableau. We have not

33:54done this.

33:55I think this is coming up.

33:58So once we've logged in, I think this is

34:00coming up.

34:00Configure the initial node settings we've

34:02done.

34:03We haven't done this.

34:05My computer's fans have really kicked on.

34:07So I think something is definitely

34:09something's definitely cooking.

34:11I think it's right at the end.

34:13So that's going to be fun anyway.

34:15Configure initial node settings, add an

34:16administrator account.

34:18So this is basically the step we're on here

34:19.

34:19Add an administrator account is what will

34:22happen next.

34:23Initialize node installation defaults, jump

34:25start installations,

34:26install switches and properties for Tableau

34:29.

34:29Automated installation. These are different

34:32setups.

34:33Then you've got a bunch of post

34:35installation tasks.

34:36So security hardening checklist configuring

34:39SMTP for the emailing capabilities to work.

34:42So Tableau Server can email issues to the

34:44admins or to people to do subscriptions.

34:47Configure server event notification.

34:49Configure the data cache, database drivers.

34:52If you're going to be using your server to

34:53refresh data sources,

34:54well, you're going to need to install

34:56drivers for databases that are non-standard

34:58.

34:58It comes with some of them pre-installed.

35:00I'm not sure actually if they are still

35:01installed.

35:02I think they might have removed it by

35:04default, but essentially it's going to

35:05you're going to want to add those drivers

35:08on.

35:08Let's say you're using a database that's

35:09not standard.

35:10You'll want to install the drivers on the

35:12server so the server itself

35:13can actually connect to those databases

35:15when it's refreshing data.

35:16Server crash reporter and navigate the

35:20admin areas of the web UI.

35:21We will do this move Tableau Server to

35:23another drive.

35:23We could do that, but we don't need to just

35:26yet.

35:26Maybe we'll do that in another video.

35:28Distributed and highly available

35:30installations.

35:31You've got additional things to do.

35:32So we're doing a single node setup when you

35:35're doing multi-node setups.

35:36This is where the distributed and highly

35:38available installations come in.

35:39You can migrate to

35:41other hard drive and upgrades and uninstall

35:45.

35:45So that's all part of the upgrade process.

35:48There's a lot to do there.

35:49Let's go back 89 percent complete and still

35:52initializing the elastic server.

35:54So we'll just give that a bit more time.

35:58I think this just takes a bit of time

36:00because

36:02things are going to be spooling up.

36:05Fans keep sort of spinning on my computer.

36:07I think it's actually being quite

36:09it's actually difficult for me to know

36:13unless I come back out,

36:14get a task manager

36:18and it what should be happening is that the

36:2275 year I'm not surprised here.

36:26What's going on?

36:28So we've got let's go here. Let's go to

36:30this.

36:31OK, so you can see here the memory is

36:33pretty much locked out.

36:35So the 40 gig that I gave it is being

36:37utilized fully.

36:38CPU is working pretty, pretty hard.

36:41It's being asked to do a lot of things.

36:43The disk is being used and this disk is

36:46actually the shared disk.

36:47So I've got several disks on here on disk

36:49zero has three drives on it.

36:52So it's just SSD and essentially I split it

36:54up.

36:55Nothing else is going on there.

36:57Don't know why my GPU is being used.

36:59Maybe because I'm virtualizing a lot of

37:01stuff.

37:01It's just using that.

37:03I never understand sometimes why Windows

37:05uses so much of the GPU.

37:07I mean, 20 percent utilization on my

37:10graphics card.

37:10Not really sure what form.

37:13It's not doing anything.

37:14It's just installing a server technology.

37:16That's that's pretty much it.

37:17So nonetheless, let's go back into full

37:20screen view and wait for it to finish.

37:23OK, so the final bits have been done.

37:27Installation complete.

37:30Very, very final thing.

37:32You'll see it says connecting to this

37:33portal maintenance.

37:34This portal is the thing that gives us the

37:37interface of Tableau service.

37:39So that's what that is.

37:40And we can go ahead and hit continue.

37:42And when we do that, it's going to ask us

37:43to set up the admin account.

37:45So for this one, I'm just going to use

37:47the admin account.

37:50I already have set up and saved my password

37:52.

37:52So we'll call this Tableau Tim as the

37:55display user.

37:55Let's do that.

37:59And for this one, we'll use the same

38:01password and we'll create that account.

38:03There we go. Tableau server installed.

38:08It's working and it's beautiful, right?

38:10So let's go ahead.

38:12We can actually do a couple of things

38:13before we go around the interface.

38:15Notice that the Tableau services manager

38:16has also changed.

38:18So I'll come back to this in a second.

38:19We have our server.

38:21Let's go over here on the left hand side.

38:23If I hit up, it shows me the last run

38:26command.

38:27Instead, what I'm going to do is TSM jobs

38:29list.

38:29Just so you can see that that job, the

38:31first job, job zero completed.

38:34So what you can see here is that it started

38:36at twenty two forty eight.

38:37It's finished at twenty three.

38:39So that took roughly twenty three minutes

38:42to run.

38:42So that's pretty good going, actually.

38:44Actually, no, it took less time than that.

38:46Twenty two forty eight.

38:47That's what? Ten plus three plus two.

38:51What's that? Ten was fifteen minutes to

38:53install server.

38:54OK, it's very vanilla install.

38:57It takes a lot longer for that to to to

38:59install server.

38:59And there's a lot more to do if you're

39:01actually doing this in an enterprise setup.

39:02But if you're just testing everything, you

39:04're just getting going.

39:05This is a great way to do it.

39:06So now that we've done that, I'm going to

39:09minimize this.

39:09We're just going to make this a little bit

39:11larger.

39:11So it'll open up Tableau server.

39:13You'll see this.

39:14And if I go over to the top right hand side

39:16and I go to my account settings,

39:19you can see the here I am Tableau Tim, a

39:21local admin server administrator.

39:23A bunch of things have been done for me.

39:26I'll come back to all of these shortly.

39:28But if I go back to TSM Tableau services

39:31manager, you'll see a couple of things.

39:32I've got a warning telling me that a

39:33license is expiring.

39:35Go to the licensing page for more detail.

39:37So we'll go back to that in a little bit.

39:39But you can see here all those processes

39:41that we saw listed

39:43with the zeros and zero ones.

39:45These are all here.

39:46So the gateway was only one.

39:47So we have a tick on that.

39:49But you saw this QL server was Viscule

39:51server zero and one.

39:52This is what essentially this is.

39:54So you've got the different ports when you

39:56hover over these that tells you,

39:58OK, this is the port that it's running on

40:00for these particular activities.

40:02And if you scroll down, you can see all the

40:04different error states

40:05and statuses that you can you can sort of

40:07see these working on.

40:08If you want to see this update,

40:11you can refresh just to check the status of

40:12your server.

40:13This is quite handy because you can go to

40:15this as an admin

40:16without logging into your server.

40:17And you can check whether the server is

40:18running or working.

40:19If you need to do something very quickly,

40:21you can go over here to the top right.

40:23You can restart or stop the server just

40:24through the web interface.

40:25You can also do this through the command

40:28line.

40:28That tends to be faster.

40:30But that's by the by.

40:32If you go to the maintenance tab,

40:33you can see that you can generate log files

40:35and snapshots here.

40:37So if you get stuck, something goes wrong.

40:39You can go ahead, click this button,

40:41generate a snapshot log file snapshot.

40:44For me, I've only been running the server

40:46for literally a few minutes.

40:47There's going to be nothing in the logs.

40:49The only thing in the logs will be the logs

40:51related to the install.

40:52That's technically what will be in there.

40:54But when you do generate log files,

40:57you have this option to include the Post

40:59gres data.

41:00Now, this is just a dump of the database

41:03that Tableau uses to store information

41:05about Tableau server.

41:06So think of it as like a backup of the Post

41:08gres database.

41:09But it's also quite handy because you can

41:11use it to look and see

41:12what's been happening on the server.

41:14And if you ever have to debug something

41:16with Tableau,

41:17they actually take that dump and they

41:19connect a couple of workbooks to it,

41:21and it immediately allows them to look and

41:22see what your server was doing,

41:24how well it's being utilized, how under or

41:26over resourced it is.

41:27And they can sort of help diagnose what's

41:29maybe causing the issues for you.

41:31I don't really involve crash dumps.

41:33Crash dumps can be huge.

41:35So unless you've been asked to do that, don

41:36't do that.

41:38So, yeah, that's the maintenance area.

41:40You can obviously enable things like the

41:42server,

41:42server crash reporting and the product

41:44usage data.

41:45Totally up to you.

41:46And you've also got the ability here to

41:48upload a technical support case.

41:50I think this is just a button that goes to

41:52a web page.

41:52I'm not sure if it actually physically

41:54uploads it.

41:55So I haven't done this in a while, so maybe

41:56I'm wrong.

41:57Let me know in the comments if you know the

41:59answer.

42:00If we go to configuration, this is where we

42:02really get into the meat of stuff.

42:03So earlier on, remember, I talked about

42:05nodes.

42:06Now here you can see you've got node one,

42:08which is good.

42:08And you've got the name of the computer,

42:10which also matches what we see up here at

42:12the top.

42:13You've got the different processes.

42:15And this is actually where I change this.

42:17If you want to change the mix of all of

42:19these ticks or processes,

42:21you can actually go here and do that.

42:23By default, it's going to give me the

42:25default setup

42:26essentially to match the specs that I have.

42:28It's never going to let you run something

42:30that your server can't handle.

42:32If you do that, it's going to sort of gray

42:34them out.

42:35So you can see here you could change this

42:38one, but it's been grayed out

42:39because you can't run more than what you've

42:41already got.

42:41And this might be because you're running on

42:44a single node.

42:44It might be you want to add more nodes

42:46anyway.

42:46That's all something you can change.

42:48If you want to add more of these, you can

42:50just go in here and tick

42:51the right options.

42:53But you need to know your CPU and your

42:55resources

42:56if you sort of oversubscribe these tasks

42:59and they'll just end up

43:00eating resources and actually lead to worse

43:01performance.

43:03So that's pretty much the topology.

43:05Maybe in another video, we'll break all

43:07these down, go through them in detail,

43:09and you can ask all the questions you want.

43:11If you want to see that, let me know in the

43:12comments as well.

43:13If you were going to add another node,

43:15another one of these machines,

43:16this is where you do it.

43:18You do need this file in order to be able

43:19to do that.

43:20So that's what this bootstrap file is

43:22essentially for.

43:22We go to the security section.

43:25You can see the run as service account.

43:27Again, this is pretty much the account the

43:30Tableau uses to do things.

43:32So when Tableau server does something like

43:34connects to data source

43:35and updates Tableau, all of these things

43:37are done as the run

43:39as service account is actually a really

43:40good guide that I've highlighted here.

43:42And it basically describes what the run as

43:44service account is.

43:45It's essentially a user

43:48that when Tableau server impersonates to do

43:50stuff.

43:51That's pretty common in IT.

43:52You don't have to worry too much about that

43:54.

43:54That's just something to expect.

43:56You want to set up SSL certificates and

43:58repositories,

43:59SSL certificates as well.

44:01You can do all of that here.

44:03If you go to user identity and access, we

44:05set up a local identity access.

44:07So that means Tableau server is going to be

44:09managing it for us.

44:10But you can go in here and change those as

44:12well.

44:12And there's a whole wealth of different

44:15things.

44:15You can even change things like password

44:16policies

44:17and the way trusted authentication works as

44:19well.

44:20Notifications, it's going to want you to

44:23set up an SMTP address.

44:24SMTP is just basically a simple mail

44:26transfer protocol.

44:28I don't know that I'm just reading it

44:29literally off there.

44:31SMTP is basically a mechanism that allows

44:33you to email essentially.

44:35So you give it the address, you give it the

44:37username and password.

44:38You give it a port number.

44:39You give it the impersonation emails.

44:41And what it will do is it will go and use

44:43that username and password

44:44to log in and send emails on your behalf.

44:46Again, another server does this.

44:48Hence, it's called an SMTP server.

44:51Events, you can ask Tableau to notify you

44:53of specific

44:54things that happen on the server and

44:57related to the server.

44:58One of those things is desktop license

45:01reporting.

45:01So essentially when users license on

45:04desktop, you can actually have

45:05the server pick it up from those desktop

45:07instances

45:08so you can see who's using server when they

45:10last use it

45:10and maybe help recirculate some licenses.

45:13OK, and you can also send emails on certain

45:17thresholds

45:17like drive space and a couple of other

45:19alerts.

45:20Last but not least, you've got licensing.

45:22You can see here that my license, this

45:24particular license, expires

45:26on the 24th of June 2022,

45:29and the maintenance ends on the 1st of July

45:322022.

45:33So this is essentially a license I've

45:36graded out,

45:37but essentially just a pre-release license,

45:40essentially.

45:41So I'm just using that purely for testing

45:43purposes.

45:44And that's the way it works.

45:45OK, and if you end up using that for

45:48production,

45:49you'll technically be breaking the

45:50licensing agreement for Tableau.

45:53So you shouldn't do that. Simple as that.

45:55So, yeah, that's everything here.

45:57That's the maintenance status configuration

45:59.

45:59If we go over to the server itself,

46:01this is what you're probably more familiar

46:02with.

46:03This is considered the front end.

46:05This would technically be the nice front

46:08end of the back end.

46:09So lots of terms.

46:10I'm working on an explainer for Tableau

46:12Server and Tableau Online.

46:13It's probably going to be out

46:16early June at best.

46:18So, yeah, it takes a lot of time to sort of

46:21put these things together

46:22and make them really, really good.

46:23So now that we're here, we can go to the

46:25homepage.

46:26We can see you have no content here, but if

46:29we go to the explore,

46:30you can see the samples were installed.

46:32We can open up a visualization

46:35and wait for that to load.

46:37And yeah, I can confidently say we've

46:42installed a Tableau Server and it works.

46:44It's loading up a workbook.

46:46I can even go in and do things like Web

46:48Edit.

46:49It's a fully functioning server ready to go

46:52.

46:52And I can license 25 people in my household

46:55at least

46:55to come in and use this.

46:58So that's pretty fun.

46:59And yeah.

47:01Now, here's where the big ask is, because

47:03with server content,

47:04it's actually quite difficult to

47:07do these videos for two reasons.

47:12Like everything you've just seen there

47:14wouldn't be enough

47:14to cut it in an enterprise setup, but it

47:17maybe feels like you've learned a lot

47:19and it feels like there's been a lot of

47:20value.

47:21And sort of that's that's sort of what we

47:22're trying to do.

47:23We're trying to maybe get you a little bit

47:25closer to the experience

47:26you need to be able to get hands on with

47:28server.

47:28But in order for you to actually learn

47:32something from this

47:32and continue to learn from this, we have to

47:35sort of get closer

47:36to either a real server, multiple nodes and

47:39actually run it on real hardware,

47:41maybe on AWS or maybe in a completely

47:42different setting.

47:44So what I'd really love to know from

47:46everyone watching this video,

47:47if you've made it this far,

47:48you're probably in the top two percent of

47:50people that really care

47:52and probably want to see this more.

47:54So I'd really love to know from you, what

47:56would you like to see related to server?

47:58I could do lots of things.

47:59I could go through all the TSM commands,

48:02maybe do like the basic ones,

48:04the top ten TSM commands you're most likely

48:06to use.

48:06That's a good example.

48:07I could do one on backups.

48:09I could do one on cleaning the server.

48:11I could do one on a whole bunch of things.

48:13What are those topics?

48:14What do you need help with? What do you

48:15want to know more of?

48:17And what do you what do you sort of need

48:19help building confidence in?

48:20Because that's what these videos really are

48:22about,

48:23sort of showing you the process, me just

48:26hopefully talking through them

48:27and trying to break some of these things

48:28down for you.

48:29And hopefully that just generates a little

48:31bit of room for you

48:32to then maneuver into a place where you can

48:34be trusted to start to do this

48:36and learn alongside someone and sort of

48:38hopefully pick it up.

48:39So let me know in the comments below

48:42at some point, probably towards the end of

48:45this year.

48:46I'll try and secure a window of time with

48:49proper

48:49hardware and proper resources to do a

48:51proper install on a server

48:53and we'll probably end up live streaming it

48:55or something like that.

48:56It will be a three or four hour live stream

48:59.

48:59And the whole point of that video will be

49:01to just sort of capture it once,

49:04maybe do one kind of set up and do another

49:07video, do another kind of set up

49:08and then maybe do a third video, do another

49:10kind of set up.

49:11And the idea is to have those hopefully

49:14sponsored in some way,

49:15because servers are not cheap

49:18and the software is also not cheap.

49:20When you're running this installation, you

49:22probably noticed that I had

49:24the evaluation thing here on the bottom

49:27right.

49:27So this is just a this is just a trial,

49:30essentially of doing everything on a trial.

49:32And if you haven't noticed, my windows

49:33actually is not a trial.

49:35I'm actually paid for Windows 11 Pro, but

49:37I'm also testing an insider build of stuff.

49:40I'm just constantly on trials all the time.

49:42So

49:44this stuff is pretty hard to do.

49:45And whilst I don't really need a license

49:47for the operating system,

49:48that I can figure out for myself, we can do

49:51Linux as well.

49:52What is a little bit tricky is getting the

49:55server to work

49:56and getting all the setup correct.

49:59And I think the only thing I need to pay

50:01for is AWS.

50:01So in order to invest the right amount of

50:04time

50:04setting that up, making sure it's a really

50:06worthwhile video.

50:07I really need you guys to be vocal about

50:10what you want to see here

50:11and tell me what's good, what's not good,

50:13what you'd like to see more of.

50:16Thanks for watching.

50:17We'll catch you in the next Tableau Server

50:19video. Take it easy.

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