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About Collectors

Collectors are extractors that are developed and managed by you (A customer of K).

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• Python 3.6 - 3.10

• Tableau Server Version [2019.3] and above.

• Enable the Tableau Metadata API for Tableau Server

  • This requires a server restart if not enabled

• Tableau API access

  • An API user (record the username and password) needs to be created to access Tableau API.

  • The user cannot be a SSO user. This is a Tableau limitation. SSO users cannot access Tableau API

  • User needs Site Administrator Creator or Server/Site Administrator role. Roles are dependent on both Licensing and Server version see https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/users_site_roles.htm

    • Site Administrator Creator is only available on Role Based Licensing Model

    • Server/Site Administrator is available on both Role Based and Core Based Licensing Model

• Tableau Repository access

  • Follow the instructions to create a user that can access the Tableau repositoryhttps://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/perf_collect_server_repo.htm

    • This requires a server restart if not enabled

    • Note the Tableau repository default user is calledreadonly

• Access to the KADA Collector repository that contains the Tableau whl

  • The repository is currently hosted in KADA’s Azure Blob Storage. You will be given a SAS token to access the repository. Reach out to KADA Support (support@kada.ai) if you do not have access.

  • Download the Tableau whl (e.g. kada_collectors_extractors_tableau-#.#.#-py3-none-any.whl)

• Access to K landing directory.

Step 1: Create the Source in K

Create a Tableau source in K

• Go to Settings, Select Sources and click Add Source

• Select “Load from File” option

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• Give the K landing directory.

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Step 1: Create the Source in K

Create a Tableau source in K

• Go to Settings, Select Sources and click Add Source

• Select “Load from File” option

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• Give the source a Name - e.g. Tableau Production

• Add the Host name for the Tableau server

• Click Finish Setup

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Some python packages also have dependencies on the OS level packages, so you may be required to install additional OS packages if the below fails to install.

You can download the latest Core Library and whl via Platform Settings → Sources → Download Collectors

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Run the following command to install the collector

pip install kada_collectors_extractors_tableau-3.0.0-py3<version>-none-any.whl

You will also need to install the common library kada_collectors_lib -1.0.0 for this collector to function properly.

pip install kada_collectors_lib-1.0.0-py3<version>-none-any.whl

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Step 4: Configure the Collector

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