Administration36% of the exam
Server status, disk alerts and data-driven alerts
Read Tableau Server process health from tsm status and the two web status pages, configure drive-space email thresholds, and set up, manage and troubleshoot data-driven alerts and the server's alert-checking process.
3.2 Describe how to: 3.2.1 View server status in multiple ways; 3.2.2 View email alerts; 3.2.3 Set data-driven alerts; 3.2.4 Use built-in administrative views; 3.2.5 Create custom admin views; 3.2.6 Create a performance recording; 3.2.7 Create a nested project; 3.2.8 Work with Sites and Site Admin options.
~7 min read · 10 practice questions
What the exam expects
- View server process status three ways (
tsm status -v, the TSM Status page, the Tableau Server Status page) and interpret node and process statuses. - Configure and interpret drive-space email alerts: thresholds, units, ordering and repeat interval.
- Set data-driven alerts as a user and administer them as a Server administrator: prerequisites, checking interval, alert-checking tasks and failure handling.
- Administrative views, custom admin views and performance recordings, nested projects and site options are taught in Built-in and custom administrative views and in Performance recordings, nested projects and site settings; administrator scope is in Server, site and TSM administrator boundaries.
Key terms:
- TSM Status page: the process-status page in the Tableau Services Manager web UI, visible to TSM administrators.
- Tableau Server Status page: the process-status page in the Tableau Server web UI, visible to Tableau Server administrators.
- Drive-space thresholds: Warning and Critical percentages of remaining disk space that trigger email.
- Data-driven alert: a user-defined condition on a numeric axis that emails recipients when the data crosses a threshold.
Key facts
Full process list
- Detail
- Only
tsm status -v; web status pages show a subset
TSM-only processes
- Detail
- TSM Controller and License Server (the License Manager process) appear on the TSM Status page
Self-correction
- Detail
- Server restarts failed processes; can take 15 to 30 minutes
DEGRADED node
- Detail
- Running, with one or more primary services in error
Drive-space alerts
- Detail
- Disabled by default; set in TSM Notifications > Events
Threshold units
- Detail
- Percent of disk space remaining; Critical lower than Warning
Send threshold alert every
- Detail
- Default 60 minutes
Alert check interval
- Detail
- Default 60 minutes,
dataAlerts.checkIntervalInMinutes
Who can create alerts
- Detail
- Any site user except Viewers, when alerts are on for the site
Alert axis
- Detail
- Continuous numeric axis; not Gantt charts, maps or story points
Owner failure notice
- Detail
- Sent automatically after ten failures
Sources for this section (6)
- View Server Process Statushelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Tableau Server Processeshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- tsm statushelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Event Notificationhelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Set Up for Data-Driven Alertshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- Send Data-Driven Alertshelp.tableau.com (opens in a new tab)
- When is an alert owner automatically told that the alert is failing?
- Why must content for subscriptions and alerts have embedded or credential-free data?
- What is the default value of Send threshold alert every?
- Which tsm configuration key changes how often the server checks alert conditions?
The questions are free to read. Answers with their sources and self-grading are included with the pack.
Keep reading with the Tableau Server Administrator pack
- Core concepts
- Exam traps
- Worked scenario
The pack includes:
- All 34 lessons of the Tableau Server Administrator guide, with reading progress
- Interactive decision walks and step-by-step sequence steppers
- Practice exams purchase adds inline bank questions and topic practice (10 questions for this lesson)
- An official source cited for every claim
- An AI tutor that answers from the guide
- Choose guide-only, practice-only, or save $4 with both