Best Practices for Updating Your Tableau Server Computer
This topic provides the steps for doing minor version upgrades or patches on a computer running Tableau Server.
Important: Any major version operating system or Linux system kernel update Major upgrades (for example:
To do a minor version update or patch of the operating system or Linux kernel of a computer running Tableau Server:
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Use TSM to stop the Tableau Server:
At a command prompt, type:
tsm stop
and wait until all services are completely stopped. -
Stop the TSM administrative services by running the
stop-administrative-services
script, by default:/opt/tableau/tableau_server/packages/scripts.<version_code>/stop-administrative-services
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Patch the operating system as instructed by your IT Team or operating system vendor for all nodes in the cluster.
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If the patch requires a reboot of the operating system, make sure that all hosts in the Tableau Server cluster complete the reboot before restarting Tableau Server.
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Start Tableau Server with TSM:
At a command prompt, type:
tsm start
and wait until all services are completely started.