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server_address

string

Tableau server address inclusive of http/https

“https://10.1.19.15”

username

string

Username to log into tableau API

“tabadmin”

password

string

Password to log into tableau API

sites

list<string>

List of specific sites that you wish to extract, if left as [] it will extract all sites.

[]

db_host

string

This is generally the same as server address less the http/https

“10.1.19.15”

db_username

string

By default the tableau database use is readonly. You should not need to change this unless you actively manage the database

“readonly”

db_password

list<string>

Password for the database user

db_port

integer

Default is 8060 unless your tableau is configured differently

8060

db_name

string

Default database to use is workgroup

“workgroup”

meta_only

boolean

If for some reason you want to extract meta only set this to true otherwise leave it as false

false

retries

integer

Number of retries that the extractor should hit the API incase of intermittent failures, default is 5

5

dry_run

boolean

By doing a dry run you produce the mapping.json file which is used to populate the mapping field below. It is recommended you do a dry run first to see what databases are available to map.

true

output_path

string

Absolute path to the output location where files are to be written

“/tmp/output”

mask

boolean

To enable masking or not

true

mapping

json

Add the mapping for each data source in Tableau to a data source that is loaded into K. You will need to map the data source name in Tableau to the data source host name in K . (these can be found on the Sources page)

Skip any data sources are not onboarded in K (these will be loaded in as references until the source is added to K).

See Host / Database Mapping for more details

Where somehost is the alternate name created in Tableau for the Analytics database that has been onboarded to K

{
"somehost.adw": "analytics.adw"
}