Alteryx Server Knowledge Base

How to do a Hosts file modification to redirect a domain traffic on your machine to another IP address

Exception thrown when asserting SAML response from IDP (when using either MetadataURL or x509 certificate)

It is not uncommon for customer to migrate existing users from old domain to new domain. This article explains how to achieve this manually.

Identifying bad network routes or firewall issues affecting Server nodes or data source hosts

How to retrieve and save Windows System events related to System and Application

The schedule replaces the earlier setup to default values in the “Custom” and “Recurring” schedules.

A guide to Server licensing requirements, the different types of Server licenses, and when to use them.

In Server 2021.4, the entropy of the Controller Token was increased. If the Controller Token had not been regenerated in the new format in the original environment prior to the migration, then attempting to restore the original Controller Token in the new environment would result in an error.

The following Designer Desktop tools and events are prohibited in the Analytics Gallery due to the numerous possible configurations and the actions that can be performed

In this article we will look at the importance of the Alteryx Server Sandbox environment to help ensure the smooth operation of the production Alteryx Server environment.

When running a Python workflow on the Server, an initialization error occurs (typeerror: init_io_state).

This KB will help you work around a specific type of case where rebuilding Gallery indexes returns a 500 error message and FIPS are enabled on the Alteryx Server

Page Not Found after login to gallery when using SAML authentication

When Alteryx Service fails to start, the error "Embedded Mongo Service failed to start in a timely fashion, exiting" may be seen in the Service logs and the LastStartUpError.txt file. The resolution is to clear the AlteryxGallery.locks collection in MongoDB

How to set up a Bulk Loader Connection in Gallery.

When using SSO when user signs to the gallery and open a new tab in same browser gallery it will request to sign in again

Workflows stay in "Queued" state or in "Running" state for a lot longer than it would normally take for them to run. If the affected workflows were run as part of schedules, subsequent runs will not occur until the previous one is complete, either with errors or successfully. Schedules get set to "Disabled" when Users are only in Active Directory Groups but not when they are added to Gallery individually in versions prior to Server 2020.4.

When performing a Server migration, an error may occur when attempting to set the Controller token on the new Server to the value from the original Server through Command Line. The resolution to this issue is to remove the existing "ServerSecretEncrypted" value from the RuntimeSettings.xml file.

When trying to save a workflow to Server (Gallery) from Designer, an error message about system policy denying access to the requested URL may appear. This is resolved by flushing the DNS cache on the machine where this error occurred.

Application to be run prior to upgrading Server. Checks for common causes of upgrade failures.

One of the three database options when setting up the Alteryx Server is to connect into a User-Managed MongoDB instance. Why would you want to set up your own implementation of MongoDB? The main benefits are to take advantage of the features of MongoDB that are not included with our embedded instance.