Administration36% of the exam
Server analysis, REST API, embedding and license usage
How to collect PerfMon data and adapt Tableau's sample performance workbook, remove users from a site, refresh and deactivate product keys, address the REST API with LUIDs and JSON bodies, find the right log, choose a compatible Embedding API library, and collect and filter Desktop license usage.
3.1 Understand how to: 3.1.1 Maintain data connections; 3.1.2 Create schedules; 3.1.3 Create, edit and delete subscriptions; 3.1.4 Perform Server analysis; 3.1.5 Complete a backup and restore; 3.1.6 Perform cleanup; 3.1.7 Add, remove, or deactivate users; 3.1.8 Update licenses; 3.1.9 Start, stop or restart; 3.1.10 Utilize tsm and tabcmd; 3.1.11 Use REST API; 3.1.12 Work with Log Files; 3.1.13 Understand Embedding; 3.1.14 Monitor Desktop license usage; 3.1.15 Manage workbook and data source revision history.
~8 min read · 10 practice questions
What the exam expects
- Collect server resource data with Windows Performance Monitor and adapt Tableau's sample performance workbook to it.
- Predict what removing a user from one site does, and what term and perpetual product keys do when they expire.
- Build classic REST API requests: sign in, site LUID in the URI, XML or JSON bodies, version numbers.
- Find the log a component writes, and pick an Embedding API library compatible with the server release.
- Enable Desktop license reporting and read the Desktop License Usage view and its filters.
Key terms:
- PerfMon data collector set: how Windows Performance Monitor stores the counters it gathers.
- LUID: a locally unique identifier for a site or resource in REST API URIs.
- Content URL: the site's subpath, called the Site ID on Tableau Server.
- Embedding API v3: the JavaScript library for embedding views from Tableau 2021.4 or later.
- Desktop license reporting: product-key Tableau Desktop installations sending usage to Tableau Server.
Key facts
Process counters
- Detail
- Tableau Server must be running when the data collector set is created
PerfMon log format
- Detail
- Comma separated; sample interval 30 seconds
Sample workbook
- Detail
- Remap host-named fields, add process instances, remove the date filter
Remove from site
- Detail
- Other sites' memberships unchanged
Expired term key
- Detail
- Tableau stops; activate a new key from the Customer Portal
Expired perpetual maintenance
- Detail
- Keeps running; no upgrades until renewed
REST version
- Detail
- 2022.3 = API 3.17
Credentials token
- Detail
- 240 minutes by default; signed-in site only
TSM client log
- Detail
C:\Users\<user>\.tableau\tsm\tsm.log
Embedding API for 2022.3
- Detail
- v3.3 (
tableau.embedding.3.3.0)
Desktop reporting setup
- Detail
- Enable on Server, and set each Desktop's reporting server
Top bar graph
- Detail
- Empty when Use is not selected in Action
Sources for this section (10)
- Collect Data with Windows Performance Monitorhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Analyze Data with the Sample Performance Workbookhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Add Users to a Sitehelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Refresh Expiration Date and Attributes for the Product Keyhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- REST API and Resource Versionshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Signing In and Signing Out (Authentication)help.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Tableau Server Logs and Log File Locationshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Access Tableau Embedding API v3help.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Manage Tableau Desktop License Usagehelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Tableau Desktop License Usagehelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- When does a REST API credentials token expire if the server keeps its default setting?
- Why can PerfMon fail to collect counters from a second node even after they were selected?
- Which HTTP status does a successful REST DELETE return?
- Why can't a web page load the Embedding API library from a local
file://copy?
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