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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

Administering through the Portal REST Administrative Directory


Just like ArcGIS Server, Portal has a REST backend from which all administrative tasks can be performed.

We previously covered how the web interface for ArcGIS Server is a frontend to the ArcGIS Server REST API, and Portal is no different. We also covered services and how REST calls are made to the API. With all that covered, let's dive in and look at some of the administrative actions that can be performed in the Portal REST Admin.

System properties

Portal system properties include items such as Web Adaptors and licensing. Information about these items can be viewed, and each has operations to make configuration changes.

Web Adaptor

To get to your Portal Web Adaptor in Portal Admin, go to Home | System | Web Adaptors | <web adaptor ID>. If you've examined the Web Adaptor settings in the ArcGIS Server REST Administrator, then this should look familiar to you. Here, you can see Machine Name, Machine IP, URL, and the ports associated...