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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

Users, roles, and privileges


Within the geodatabase, there is a hierarchy of users, with each level being based on what actions the user can perform. We have talked at length about the most powerful two of these users, the database administrator and geodatabase administrator. These users are vital to the creation, management, and maintenance of the enterprise geodatabase. As the following diagram shows, with great power, there must also come great responsibility. Database administrators and geodatabase administrators are both powerful accounts with far-reaching privileges. The following diagram shows that with increased privileges in the database, come increased responsibilities:

Note

Remember that the geodatabase administrator account should never own data in the geodatabase.

The data owner account

Another important account is the data owner; this account owns the schema and therefore the data, sets privileges, performs maintenance tasks, and probably most importantly, loads data into the geodatabase...