

In its SecurityGroup allow RDP from the office:īridge will create only outbound connections, so no need to add any Inbound rules here. The “Live connections disabled on site” errorįor now, we can use the t3.large as we have Windows, plus Tableau Bridge is written in Java, so it will consume some resources:Ĭhoose a VPC where our database server will be hosted:įor Production later we will have a dedicated VPC with VPC peerings.Tableau Desktop and a data source connection.Windows: “Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded”.So, in this post, we will spin up an EC2 with Wirfows, will install Tableau Bridge client there, Tableau Desktop, and will add a new connection to a new database server via a private network link to use it later in the Tableau Online. Check it here: Use Bridge to Keep Data Fresh, and Plan Your Bridge Deployment. Tableau’s documentation unfortunately doesn’t reveal that details. How connections are routed? Why it’s impossible to have a PC with the Bridge and Desktop in an office, another PC with only Bridge on a PC in a database server’s network, and then route requests between them?

But then it turned out, that you still need to have access from a PC with the Desktop to add a new data source.Īlso, it’s very weird how the Bridge is working in general on its network layer. support, which first told me, that they can be hosed on separate instances. In general, Tableau made a lot of documentation about its Bridge, but it’s a bit incomplete, as for me.įor example, the very first question for me was – does the Bridge service needs to be running on the same machine, where Tableau Desktop is running? Or it can be hosted on another PC? Documentation doesn’t say anything about this, and I had to ask the tech. Also, Bridge will perform data encryption during its transitioning via the Internet. The idea is to have a Bridge service running in a network, which has access to a database server via its Private IP. To access a database server, that has no public access (as it must be – access only inside an AWS VPC), Tableau suggests using its tool called Tableau Bridge.
