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server_address

string

2.0.0+

Tableau server address inclusive of http/https

“https://10.1.19.15”

username

string2.0.0+

Username to log into tableau APIapi

“tabadmin”

password

string

2.0.0+

Password to log into tableau APIapi

sites

list<string>2.0.0+

List of specific sites that you wish to extract, if left as [] it will extract all sites. If you wish to extract the default site only you may do so specifying “default”

[]

db_host

string

2.0.0+

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

“10.1.19.15”

db_username

string

2.0.0+

By 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>2.0.0+

Password for the database user

db_port

integer

2.0.0+

Default is 8060 unless your tableau is configured differently

8060

db_name

string2.0.0+

Default database to use is workgroup

“workgroup”

meta_only

boolean

2.0.0+

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

false

retries

integer2.0.0+

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

5

dry_run

boolean

2.0.0+

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

2.0.0+

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

“/tmp/output”

mask

boolean

2.0.0+

To enable masking or not

true

mapping

json

2.0.0+

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

Where analytics.adw is the onboarded database in K

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

ssl_verification

boolean

2.1.0+

Enable or disable ssl verification for tableau API requests