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Connecting MetaMiner to your Tableau Software

Now you need to connect MetaMiner Tableau Edition (MMTE) to your Tableau Software installation(s).

MMTE will access Tableau using credentials you should provide.

Think of MMTE like a ghost user with an endless amount of energy, precision, and memory who can open, review, and remember every detail about every project and worksheet it uses, the people who accessed it, and more. This user has a name and it must be defined in the MMTE Administrator tool.

To do this:

  1. Switch to MMTE Administrator or launch it if it is not started.

  2. On its main window, under the BI Environments section, find and click the Add Tableau button:

    Add Tableau

  3. The Add Tableau Environment window opens. Fill in the following fields under the Tableau System Configuration section:

    • Display name: a title for this environment that will be used in MetaMiner (required)
    • Gateway host: hostname or IP address of Tableau Server, e. g. tableau.mycompany.com (required)
    • Site ID: identifier of a site within the environment, if a single site must be connected only (optional)
    • Username: Tableau user login to be used by MetaMiner, a dedicated technical user account with login/password authentication is recommended, you created in the very beginning (required)
    • Password: a password for this user account (required)
    • Use HTTPS: enable SSL encryption on this connection, if SSL is already enabled on your Tableau server(s) (optional)
    • Description: you may want to add some notes about this environment (optional)

  4. Click Test Connection. MetaMiner will try to reach your Tableau Server using the credentials you just provided and report the results: success or failure.

  5. Fill in the following fields under the Tableau Postgres section:

    • Host: hostname or IP address of your server where PostgreSQL RDBMS hosting Tableau Repository of this environment is installed (required)
    • Port: TCP/IP port of this PostgreSQL installation, 8060 by default (required)
    • DB name: database name (required)
    • Username: PostgreSQL user account login, a dedicated technical user account with login/password authentication is recommended, created in the very beginning (required)
    • Password: a password for this user account (required)
    • Use SSL: enable SSL encryption on this connection, if SSL is already enabled on your PostgreSQL server(s) (optional)

  6. Click Test Connection. MetaMiner will try to access your Tableau Repository using the credentials you just provided and report the results: success or failure.

Once all configuration settings are in place, pressing OK will automatically validate your entries and provide error details if anything entered was incorrect.

See Also

Connecting MMTE to PostgreSQL Database

Managing Tableau BI Environments

User Accounts

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