MicroStrategy ONE

Deploy MicroStrategy for Tableau on Tomcat

To use the connector, you must have the MicroStrategyForTableau.war file deployed in your environment.

Starting in MicroStrategy 2021 Update 2, the MicroStrategy for Tableau connector is supported on Tomcat 9 and later.

To deploy your .war file, perform the following steps.

In Windows

  1. Copy the MicroStrategyForTableau.war file from the folder in which it was saved during installation.

  2. Open the Tomcat installation folder. In the webapps folder, paste the .war file.

    For example, paste the .war file in the following location: Program Files (x86)\Common Files\MicroStrategy\Tomcat\apache-tomcat-9.0.22\webapps.

  3. Restart the Web Server to deploy the connector.

Confirm your .war file is deployed by opening the following link: http://yourservername:8080/MicroStrategyForTableau/.

In Linux

  1. Copy the MicroStrategyForTableau.war file from the folder in which it was saved during installation.

  2. Open the Tomcat installation folder. In the webapps folder, paste the .war file.

    For example, paste the .war file in the following location: <Tomcat-Home>\webapps.

  3. Restart Tomcat to deploy the .war file.

Confirm your .war file is deployed by opening the following link: http(s)://<FQDN>:<port>/ MicroStrategyForTableau/.