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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

Chapter 5. Portal for ArcGIS Administration

With the release of ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5, Portal for ArcGIS, referred to as Portal here, became a first-class citizen, joining the ranks of ArcGIS Server and becoming a fully integrated, standard component of the Esri platform. Using Portal, your users can create, edit, and share web maps and web mapping applications. GIS content can be searched, shared, and accessed in ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro. When ArcGIS Server is federated with your Portal, Portal provides an interface and a window into your ArcGIS Server content. Even without federation, Portal still provides an intuitive ArcGIS Online-like experience and central access point into your enterprise GIS. In many organizations, Portal is the method used to interact with the enterprise GIS. Also, administrative tasks for Portal determine and set which base content and templates are available to your users and how they interact with these resources. For these reasons, it is easy to see how...