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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

Summary


Administration is a crucial task that must be diligently carried out. A properly maintained and administered ArcGIS Server site will run efficiently, smoothly, and dependably. In this chapter, we started at the ground floor and learned about how to access administrative functions through ArcGIS Server Manager, ArcCatalog, and the REST Admin. We looked at a wide array of administrative tasks from log settings, backup and restore, and resetting and changing the ArcGIS Server primary site account. We then dove into the ArcGIS Server REST Admin and learned how to navigate around to work with tokens, manage services, system settings, logs, and data settings. We will soon use our familiarity with the REST Admin in Chapter 7, Scripting Administrative Tasks, where we will interact with the REST Admin through Python scripts, allowing us to automate administrative tasks. However, first, in the next chapter, we will look at Portal for ArcGIS administration.