Server Maintenance

Often, as a system administrator, you will want to check the status of the server, analyze and monitor the activity on the server, manage scheduled tasks, or perform certain maintenance activities such as rebuilding the search index. In addition, there are several settings that you may want to specify to customize the user experience for people using the server. You can do all of these tasks from the Maintenance page.

To open the Maintenance page:

 

Status

The maintenance page shows system status for the following Tableau Services on each machine:

 

The following key explains what each status color means:

 

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Note: Refer to the Tableau Server Administrator Guide to learn more about managing the services including backing up and restoring.

 

Analysis

As an administrator, you have access to some special views that give you information about the server and user activity. Click the links in the Analysis area of the page to access these views.

 

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As an administrator you can create your own administrative views that monitor the server using Tableau Desktop. Refer to the Tableau Server Administrator Guide to learn more about creating custom administrative views.

 

Schedules

 

Tableau Server allows you to refresh extracts that are published to the server on a schedule. For example, you may publish a workbook that uses an extract from a larger data warehouse that is updated weekly. You can refresh the extract with updated data each week automatically by adding it to a schedule. Schedules are only enabled when the server is configured with an Extract Storage Type. Refer to Schedules to learn more about enabling and managing schedules.

 

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Note: You can monitor scheduled tasks using the Task History administrative view. Click the Task History link in the Analysis section of the Maintenance page.

Activities

There are currently two maintenance activities that you can perform from the Maintenance page.

Rebuild Search Index

If for any reason the search index stops returning the correct results or is missing results, you may need to rebuild the search index. Additionally, you should rebuild the search index if the indexer goes down for an extended period of time. Click the corresponding link to begin rebuilding the search index.

 

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Clear All Saved Passwords:

If you have enabled the Saved Passwords setting, users can choose to save data source passwords across multiple visits and browsers. As an administrator you can reset all of the passwords for all users, which forces users to log in to the data sources the next time they visit a view that requires database authentication. Click the corresponding link to clear all saved passwords.

 

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Settings

As an administrator there are several settings you can specify to customize the user experience for people using the server. You can enable the following settings:

 

 

 

 

 

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