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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

Portal security


Portal is the window into your GIS system and has many settings for keeping it secure.

Fundamentals of Portal security

Security for Portal for ArcGIS is just as important as ArcGIS Server security. Portal is just that, a portal into your data, services, maps, and applications.

Web-tier authentication

Web-tier authentication occurs at the web server tier. If your organization uses Active Directory, you can use IWA to enable an automatic or single sign-on experience through web-tier authentication using the ArcGIS Web Adaptor for Internet Information Services (IIS). Likewise, if your organization uses LDAP, it can be used with ArcGIS Server with your Web Adaptor deployed to a Java application server such as Apache Tomcat or IBM WebSphere.

Note

With web-tier authentication, administration must be allowed through the Web Adaptor. This allows users in the enterprise identity store to publish services from ArcGIS Desktop on their local PCs. To publish, they must connect to ArcGIS Server...