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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

By : Chad Cooper
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Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

By: Chad Cooper

Overview of this book

ArcGIS Enterprise, the next evolution of the ArcGIS Server product line, is a full-featured mapping and analytics platform. It includes a powerful GIS web services server and a dedicated Web GIS infrastructure for organizing and sharing your work. You will learn how to first install ArcGIS Enterprise to then plan, design, and finally publish and consume GIS services. You will install and configure an Enterprise geodatabase and learn how to administer ArcGIS Server, Portal, and Data Store through user interfaces, the REST API, and Python scripts. This book starts off by explaining how ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5.1 is different from earlier versions of ArcGIS Server and covers the installation of all the components required for ArcGIS Enterprise. We then move on to geodatabase administration and content publication, where you will learn how to use ArcGIS Server Manager to view the server logs, stop and start services, publish services, define users and roles for security, and perform other administrative tasks. You will also learn how to apply security mechanisms on ArcGIS Enterprise and safely expose services to the public in a secure manner. Finally, you’ll use the RESTful administrator API to automate server management tasks using the Python scripting language. You’ll learn all the best practices and troubleshooting methods to streamline the management of all the interconnected parts of ArcGIS Enterprise.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Permissions issues


Like any other complex system that is constantly accessing resources, ArcGIS Enterprise relies on having proper access to these required resources. Permissions errors are by far some of the most prevalent sources of issues with ArcGIS Enterprise and they also happen to be some of the most difficult to diagnose. What's worse is that permissions issues typically spring up out of nowhere; one day things are working fine, the next day, your entire site is down.

What to look for

With permissions issues, look for anything that might seem like it's related to ArcGIS Server not being able to access something it needs. Permissions issues can manifest in a multitude of ways, but some to look for include the following:

  • The ArcGIS Server Windows service will not start (has the password on the ArcGIS Server account expired?)
  • ArcGIS Server services will not start (permissions on the configuration store could be out of sorts)
  • ArcGIS Server services cannot be stopped nor deleted (configuration...