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To the Linux user - I apologise, I think its plain to see, that I’m a fan of the safety net that MS has built in Windows |
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This entry is incomplete |
Have you ever deployed Tableau Server to a Windows Stack? I mean actually deployed the server, rather than spin-up a pre-configured image from either Tableau Cloud, or those available in Amazon Web Services, MS Azure, Alibabba or Google Cloud Platform.
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A hardware or virtual environment that meets the minimum requirements - unless you know you need a multi-node setup or highly available cluster, a single instance will be enough and is comparable to a Tableau Cloud deployment
A supported Linux distro - see here for supported distributions
Recipe:
Download the correct installation package (.deb or .rpm depending on linux), these commands will pull
in the required dependencies as well
For RHEL:
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# sudo yum install ./Tableau-server-<version>.x86-64.rpm |
For Ubuntu:
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# sudo apt install gdebi-core (install separate helper package)
# sudo gdebi -n tableau-server-<version>_amd64.deb |
And then to initialise the server:
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Online / Offline Server activation: --no-activation-service Will disable this function. Please thorough read through the information surrounding ATR here: Activate Tableau Server Using the Authorisation-To-Run (ATR) Service - Tableau. Tableau recommends using the Server authorization-to-run (ATR) service to simplify server licensing. Choosing to not use Server ATR, will switch to the legacy licensing technology which does not provide the dynamic management capabilities of Server ATR; and once configured cannot be changed without complete removal of the server and a new install |
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# cd /opt/tableau/tableau_server/packages/scripts.<version_code>/
# sudo ./initialize-tsm --accepteula |
(Optional) Disabling ATR
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# sudo ./initialize-tsm --accepteula --no-activation-service |
Once you’ve initialised tsm, the rest of the install process follows Windows:
Log out and back in again to get the new session variables
Log into the tsm UI and continue as with Windows installation
After this the server is up and running. Some drivers might need to be manually installed, but the instructions are available on the Tableau drivers page.
The TSM UI and commands are exactly the same to configure the server.