Re:Tableau stock down almost 50%
by avemg on Friday February 05, 2016 @08:37PM
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Trusted Authentication is a poor solution to the problem of how I can embed views in my web app without having the end users of my web app have Tableau server accounts. For the following reasons:
- I have to explicitly add each server IP address. I have no way to trust an entire subnet or range of addresses. This is a huge problem in an auto-scaling app server environment where I don't know the IP addresses my app servers will have. It is a major annoyance to developers whose DHCP-assigned, dynamic IP addresses keep changing.
- There is no API for adding trusted IP addresses. It is a manual process.
- The Tableau server must be stopped and restarted to add new trusted IPs.
- I have to explicitly add each server IP address. I have no way to trust an entire subnet or range of addresses. This is a huge problem in an auto-scaling app server environment where I don't know the IP addresses my app servers will have. It is a major annoyance to developers whose DHCP-assigned, dynamic IP addresses keep changing.
- There is no API for adding trusted IP addresses. It is a manual process.
- The Tableau server must be stopped and restarted to add new trusted IPs.