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Tableau Server

Tableau is a business intelligence tool that allows you to connect to data, and create dashboards that can be shared. Tableau has a desktop component and a server component.

Objects Extracted

Enterprise Data Catalog extracts metadata from the server component of Tableau:

Permissions to Configure the Resource

To connect to Tableau Server, Enterprise Data Catalog uses the credentials of a user created on the Tableau Server. Make sure that you configure the user account with the following license levels and permissions:

Basic Information

The General tab includes the following basic information about the resource:
Information
Description
Name
The name of the resource.
Description
The description of the resource.
Resource type
The type of the resource.
Execute On
You can choose to execute on the default catalog server or offline.

Resource Connection Properties

The General tab includes the following properties:
Property
Description
Server
The host name or the IP address where the Tableau server runs.
Site
Specify the site if the Tableau server has multiple sites installed. The value is case sensitive.
Username
The user name to connect to the Tableau server.
Password
The password associated with the user name.
Worker Threads
Number of worker threads required to retrieve metadata asynchronously.
Auto Assign Connections
Specifies to automatically assign the connection.
The Metadata Load Settings tab includes the following properties:
Property
Description
Enable Source Metadata
Select to extract metadata from the data source.
Enable Reference Resources
Option to extract metadata about assets that are not included in this resource, but referred to in the resource. Examples include source and target tables in PowerCenter mappings, and source tables and files from Tableau reports.
Retain Unresolved Reference Assets
Option to retain unresolved reference assets in the catalog after you assign connections. Retaining unresolved reference assets help you view the complete lineage. The unresolved assets include deleted files, temporary tables, and other assets that are not present in the primary resource.
Group By
Specify to group workbooks in the following categories:
  • - Project
  • - My Workbooks
  • - All Workbooks
Repository Objects
Imports the repository objects such as workbooks and data sources. For any workbooks, the dependent data sources are also imported.
Memory
Specifies the memory required to run the scanner job. Select one of the following values based on the data set size imported:
  • - Low
  • - Medium
  • - High
Note: For more information about the memory values, see the Tuning Enterprise Data Catalog Performance article on How To-Library Articles tab in the Informatica Doc Portal
Custom Options
JVM parameters that you can set to configure scanner container. Use the following arguments to configure the parameters:
  • - -Dscannerloglevel=<DEBUG/INFO/ERROR>. Changes the log level of scanner to values, such as DEBUG, ERROR, or INFO. Default value is INFO.
  • - -Dscanner.container.core=<No. of core>. Increases the core for the scanner container. The value should be a number.
  • - -Dscanner.yarn.app.environment=<key=value>. Key pair value that you need to set in the Yarn environment. Use a comma to separate the key pair value.
  • - -Dscanner.pmem.enabled.container.memory.jvm.memory.ratio=<1.0/2.0>. Increases the scanner container memory when pmem is enabled. Default value is 1.
  • - -DhandleIdCollisionForTableau=true. Handles the duplicate object conflicts with the extracted Tableau objects.
Track Data Source Changes
View metadata source change notifications in Enterprise Data Catalog.