Tableau screenshots are displayed on monitors throughout Broad using the process described below and scripts described here:
Tableau server configuration and support#ScreenshotScripts
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- Get BITS to add your own computer's IP address to the list of approved VNC-accessing machines (old list in attached PDF, see BITS INC0078954 ). To add a computer to this list, ask BITS to add your IP address to the Lab av VNC users group.
- VNC Viewer 5.3.2 now installed on tableau-ts-beta, can connect to Tableau monitors
- Run VNC viewer. (Software available for download here: VNC Viewer software
- BEFORE connecting to the monitor machine, disable keyboard and mouse input in VNC Options/Preferences > Inputs (so as to not disrupt the screensavers).
- Enter the IP address of the target VNC server computer (see table below).
- Password is required on monitors with new VNC licenses (same easy PW on all monitors except the Stanley Center). (None required on monitors with old VNC licenses, but that should change when BITS corrects the licenses).
- This lets you see the monitor as it is.
- To actually change its settings, "enable mouse input" must be checked (this can be done once you're connected, by accessing the hidden toolbar in the top center of the screen).
- After making changes and disabling the mouse, the screensaver should just start after one minute (so you can check the screenshots)
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| Location | IP address | VNC access | VNC password | Machine ID | Screenshots subfolder | Physical location |
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| Sequencing | 172.18.16.23 | yes | no | XP6A5-D16 | Sequencing | 320C seq lab hallway east (opposite 1150) |
| Post-LC | 172.18.16.22 | yes | no | XP6A5-DF7 | Common | 320C seq lab hallway west (opposite 1131) |
| Samples1 | 172.18.16.27 | yes | yes | XP5AC-405 | Samples | 320C samples lab south wall (181 high) |
| Samples2 | 172.18.16.28 | yes | yes | XP5AC-DFA | Samples | 320C samples lab north wall (181 low) |
| CLF | 172.18.16.31 | yes | yes | XP51A-1D2 | CLF | 415M 6th floor lab south |
| Stanley Center | 172.18.16.32 | yes | yes (alt) | XP0BD-243 | Stanley_Center | 75A 9th floor kitchen |
| Zach's demo iMac | 69.173.108.33 | no | n/a | cm59f-0fa | Common | 320C-2139 |
| GP lounge PC | 172.18.16.24 | no | n/a | xp6d1-760 | Common | 320C upstairs lounge (near 2141) |
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