Mastering Tableau Server Administration: Uncover the covers

by Arpit Agrawal

This book is intended to cover the various aspects of Tableau Server Admins on how to plan, install, configure, upgrade and perform permanence analysis of a Tableau server.This book comprises of the following chapters.Chapter 1: Tableau ArchitectureIn this chapter, you will understand about various components that make Tableau Architecture.Chapter 2: Tableau Server InstallationIn this chapter, we cover the details of Tableau Server Installation and its various pre-requisites. It also touches upon Multi-Node installation.Chapter 3: Tableau Server UpgradeIn this chapter, we cover Tableau Server upgrade steps and pre-steps to make it a success. It also covers the rollback steps.Chapter 4: Tableau Server SecurityIn this chapter, you will understand the Inflight and At-Rest Encryption needed to secure the Tableau Server.Chapter 5: Backup and RestoreIn this chapter, we cover Tableau Server Backup and Restore scenarios which is a critical factor for a Tableau Server Administrator. It also covers various types of backup needed for recovery scenarios.Chapter 6: Prepare operating system for installation.In this chapter, you will understand how to prepare your operating system to achieve a successful and stable Tableau Server.Chapter 7: Tableau Server LogsIn this chapter, we cover log locations for various Tableau Server processes, how to troubleshoot using them, and changing the logging levels.Chapter 8: LogSharkIn this chapter, you will understand about LogShark which is an ACE in hands of Administrators to visualize Tableau Server Logs.Chapter 9: Tableau on CloudIn this chapter, we cover various flavors for Tableau Server available on the cloud and detailed steps of AWS Self-Deployment. It also covers an automation code available to every user of this book to build Tableau Server easily based on Ansible. Chapter 10: Performance TuningIn this chapter, you will understand various performance tuning tips and tricks for Tableau Server and various levels and tools which come in handy for this purpose.Chapter 11: Tableau BrandingIn this chapter, we cover how to change Web Interface Logos and Sign-in notes. It also covers custom fonts and a welcome banner.Chapter 12: Command Line Utilities In this chapter, you will understand command-line utilities to interact with Tableau Server.Chapter 13: Content DeploymentIn this chapter, we cover various options available for content deployment on Tableau Server and one custom script available to all readers of this book for easy deployment.

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 4, 2021

About the author

As a fictional character in books, Arpit is not a tall-dark-handsome, he lives a simple life, crosses the road checking both the sides, orders Mix-Veg and asks for complementary salad in restaurants, asks people for the address in spite of having a smart-phone.

Born in a small town of Orissa (19th April,1989) and brought up in another small town near Raipur, Chhattisgarh, Arpit has spent one-third of his life living a mediocre life. (which he still continues...)

Sent by his parents, in his four years of exile (also called ‘Engineering’), he studied Mechanical related stuff in a classroom deficient in ‘XX’ chromosomes but ended up working in an IT firm in Pune.

Like Peter Parker turned Spider-Man out of the blue, Arpit also became a writer all of a sudden after a writer-bug bite him when he was sleeping on the last bench of his class.

By the third year of Engineering, he had never read even a single book out of his curriculum, but then 'Chetan Bhagat' and 'Shidney Sheldon' entered his life and he realized he has to go very far in fiction.

After cultivating his ideas for a few hundred days, Arpit wrote his debut novel ‘Dear life, Get well soon. And then his second book - 'Take my heart, forever...'