Tableau Server Configuration

You must work with your Tableau Administrator for this portion of the setup. Not doing so can cause serious damage to your Tableau Server deployment that we can not help undo.

You will need to allow connections from Confluence to your Tableau Server.

Tsm

Step 1: Ensure that you have no pending changes in Tableau. If this shows changes, make sure you understand what applying them means before proceeding.

tsm pending-changes list

Step 2: Disable trusted ip checking in Tableau

tsm configuration set -k wgserver.extended_trusted_ip_checking -v false

Step 3: Save your existing trusted_hosts configuration

Example Commands

tsm configuration get -k wgserver.trusted_hosts
10.0.0.1, 10.0.10.1, 10.11.12.13. // Save the IPs from this line

Step 4: Find your Confluence Server(s) IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.1)

Step 5: Replace the following example code with your existing trusted_hosts and the Confluence Server(s) IP addresses and run the command

Example Commands

tsm configuration set -k wgserver.trusted_hosts -v "10.0.0.1, 10.0.10.1, 10.11.12.13, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2" // These IPs are examples, please use the ones from your Confluence Server(s), and from Step 2.

Notes

If you have multiple nodes in a Datacenter instance, you need to add all of them

The comma separated list of ip addresses should be within double quotes with a space after each comma.

Confirm that the restart completed

Step 6: Run the following commands to finish the tsm setup

tsm pending-changes apply

Step 7: Go to Confluence App Configuration

Tabadmin

Step 1: Find tabadmin in C:\Program Files (x86)\Tableau\Tableau Server\7.0\bin and run the following command

tabadmin set wg_server.extended_trusted_ip_checking false

Step 2: Save your existing trusted_hosts configuration

Example Commands

tabadmin get wgserver.trusted_hosts
10.0.0.1, 10.0.10.1, 10.11.12.13. // Save the IPs from this line

Step 3: Find your Confluence Server(s) IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.1)

Step 4: Replace the following example code with your existing trusted_hosts and the Confluence Server(s) IP addresses and run the command

Example Commands

tabadmin set wgserver.trusted_hosts "10.0.0.1, 10.0.10.1, 10.11.12.13, 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2" // These IPs are examples, please use the ones from your Confluence Server(s), and from Step 2.

Notes

If you have multiple nodes in a Datacenter instance, you need to add all of them

The comma separated list of ip addresses should be within double quotes with a space after each comma.

Confirm that the restart completed

Step 5: Run the following commands to finish the tabadmin setup

tabadmin configure
tabadmin restart

Step 6: Go to Confluence App Configuration

Tableau Server behind a Proxy

If Tableau Server is behind a proxy, you will also need to tell Tableau Server to trust connections coming to it through a proxy, this will require additional steps:

Step 1: Ensure that you have no pending changes in Tableau. If this shows changes, make sure you understand what applying them means before proceeding.

tsm pending-changes list

Step 2: Find the hostnames which your Proxy would report

Step 3: Get the existing Proxy options configured in Tableau

Example Commands

tsm configuration get -k wgserver.trusted_hosts
10.0.1.0, 10.1.0.1
tsm configuration get -k gateway.trusted_hosts
tserver, tableau-server
tsm configuration get -k gateway.public.port
443
tsm configuration get -k gateway.trusted
127.0.0.1, 10.10.1.1
tsm configuration get -k gateway.public.host
tableau.example.org

Step 4: Replace the following example code with your hostnames and IP and run the commands.

Remember to add both the ones obtained in Step 2, and the new ones you want to add in Step 3.

Example Commands

tsm configuration set -k gateway.trusted_hosts -v "TableauServer, localhost, tableau" // These should be the hostnames which your Proxy would report.
tsm configuration set -k gateway.public.port -v "443"
tsm configuration set -k gateway.trusted -v "127.0.0.1, 10.10.10.11"
tsm configuration set -k gateway.public.host -v "tableau.example.com"
tsm pending-changes apply

Notes

If you have multiple proxy servers, you need to add all of them

The comma separated list of ip addresses should be within double quotes with a space after each comma.

Confirm that the restart completed

Notes

See https://help.tableau.com/current/server/en-us/proxy.htm#reverse-proxy-server for more details on what values to place in each of these.

Next Step

Go to Confluence App Configuration