Tableau Server on Windows Help

Activate Tableau Server

To activate Tableau Server for production use, you must have a product key.

To activate a product key, run the following command:

tsm licenses activate -k <product key>

To activate a two-week trial, run the following command:

tsm licenses activate -t

If you are unable to activate Tableau, for example, if you get an error like this:

License Server not available

see Activate Tableau Server Offline.

Register Tableau Server

After activation, you need to register Tableau Server. To do this, create a registration file and then pass it as an option with the tsm register command.

1. Generate a template that you can edit by running the following command:

   tsm register --template > /path/to/<registration_file>.json

2. Edit the template file to create your completed registration file.

   Here is an example of a registration file in the required format:

   {
       "first_name" : "Andrew",
       "last_name" : "Smith",
       "phone" : "311-555-2368",
       "email" : "andrew.smith@mycompany.com",
       "company" : "My Company",
       "industry" : "Finance",
       "company_employees" : "500",			
       "department" : "Engineering",
       "title" : "Senior Manager",
       "city" : "Kirkland",
       "state" : "WA",
       "zip" : "98034",
       "country" : "United States",
       "opt_in" : "true",
       "eula" : "true"
   }

3. After saving changes to the file, pass it with the --file option to register Tableau Server:

   tsm register --file /path/to/<registration_file>.json

   For example:

   tsm register --file C:\Users\mwatson\Documents\tableau-reg-file.json