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Confguring Failover & Highly Available Gateways

Extracts and repository data can change rapidly and even regular backups may not help you fully
recover from a system failure. Another vulnerability is having a single entry point, or gateway, for your
Tableau Server cluster. To help with this, distributed Tableau Server deployments provide real-time
content replication and failover support, as well as the ability to run multiple gateways.
Set Up Email Alerts
After you add the second worker and with
the Conguration utility still open, click the
Subscriptions and Alerts tab in the Conguration
utility and select Send email alerts for server
health issues:
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Enter the name of your SMTP serverand a
username and password if its required by your
SMTP server.
Next, enter the email account that will send
an alert if theres a system failure, and the
account(s) that will receive it. Click OK and start
Tableau Server.
When
you test,
your email
account
will receive
messages
about the
services.
Load Balance the Gateways
You can optionally use a load balancer to ensure the
clusters availability in the event of gateway failure,
and to distribute the clusters workload.
In your load balancer, enter the IP address for each
computer thats running a gateway process (the
primary and the two workers), and congure the load
balancing method, such as Fastest or Round Robin.
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Install the Servers
Install Tableau Server on the primary computer.
After Setup, stop the server and run Tableau Worker
Setup on the two additional computers that will
provide failover support. During Worker Setup,
provide the primarys IPv4 address or name.
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To stop or
start the
server, at a
command
prompt,
go to the
Tableau
Server bin
folder and
type tabadmin stop or tabadmin start
Stop the primary server and open its Conguration
utility.
Click OK to close the Conguration utility, then
start the primary server so your changes can
take effect.
D
Stop the primary server and open the
Conguration utility. On the Servers tab, select
the rst worker and click Edit. Select the
Gateway check box. Click OK.
E
Select the second worker and click Edit. Set
Data Engine to 1 and select the Repository
check box. Click OK, then OK again to close the
Conguration utility. Start the primary server.
F
On the Servers tab, click Add to add a worker
server. Enter its IPv4 address or computer name.
Enter 1 for each process. Select Repository but
leave the Gateway check box cleared. Click OK:
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Confgure the Distributed System
A
Click Add to add a second worker server.
Enter its IPv4 address or computer name.
Enter 1 for every process but the Data Engine
(set that to 0). Select Gateway but leave
Repository cleared. Click OK.
B
Still on the Servers tab, select This
Machine and click Edit. Set every process
to 0, clear the Repository check box but keep
Gateway selected. Click OK.
C
You do not specify
which worker is
active or standby.