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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

Carrying out administrative tasks


Now that we have discussed the different methods to connect the admin interfaces to ArcGIS Server, let's cover some administrative tasks and scenarios, and how we can tackle them.

Adding and removing machines from an ArcGIS Server site

ArcGIS Server machines are the work horses of your server site. The beauty of ArcGIS Server is that it is fully scalable, meaning that, if in the future you need to add more processing power to your site, you can simply add another ArcGIS Server machine to help distribute the workload. To add a machine to your existing site, it is recommended to provision the new machine to have the exact specs of existing servers in the site. Some of the requirements of a new machine that must be the same as the other ArcGIS Server machines in the site include the following:

  • Same operating system
  • Same hardware specs (RAM, processor, and more)
  • Same version number of ArcGIS Server
  • Same licence
  • Same ArcGIS Server account (domain is best)

Other requirements...