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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

Best practices


Best practices can be defined as professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective. We've talked about best practices throughout this book without even knowing it. Let's cover some specific best practices that can help your ArcGIS Enterprise system run smoothly and efficiently.

Credentials

We covered password strength at length in Chapter 6, Security. Let's talk more about service accounts and some best practices around them.

Service accounts

ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, and Data Store for ArcGIS all run as Windows services, but what exactly is a service? A service is a program that runs in the background and executes with no user interaction. Most services are typically configured to start automatically with Windows. A service account is a Windows user account that exists solely to provide a security context for a Windows service and determines the service's ability to access local and network resources. In other words, the service...