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1. Open TSM in a browser:

   https://<tsm-computer-name>:8850. For more information, see Sign in to Tableau Services Manager Web UI.

2. Click Notificationson the Configuration tab and click Email Server.

3. Enter the SMTP configuration information for your organization:

4. Click Save Pending Changes after you've entered your configuration information.

5. Click Pending Changes at the top of the page:

   

6. Click Apply Changes and Restart.

7. Run the tsm email test-smtp-connection to view and verify the connection configuration. See tsm email test-smtp-connection.

For the initial configuration of SMTP, we recommend that you use the configuration file template below to create a json file. You can also set any single configuration key listed below with the syntax described in tsm configuration set.

1. Copy the following json template to a file.

   Important: The template below includes common options for most deployments. After you copy the template to a text file, you must edit the option values for your SMTP server requirements. You may need to remove or add options. See the reference section that follows for more information about all supported SMTP key options.

   {
   “configKeys”: {
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.server": "SMTP server host name",
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.send_account": "SMTP user name",
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.port": 443,
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.password": "SMTP user account password",
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.ssl_enabled": true,
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.from_address": "From email address",
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.target_addresses": "To email address1,address2",
   	"svcmonitor.notification.smtp.canonical_url": "Tableau Server URL"
   	}
   }

2. Run the tsm settings import -f file.json to pass the json file with the appropriate values to Tableau Services Manager to configure Tableau Server for SMTP. Tableau Services Manager will validate the entity values.

3. Run the tsm pending-changes apply command to apply the changes. See tsm pending-changes apply.

4. Run the tsm email test-smtp-connection to view and verify the connection configuration. See tsm email test-smtp-connection.