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Accelerating Acreage Grading with ArcGIS Pro 3D and AWS Cloud Automation
Background When our upstream product manager set out to prepare Acreage Grading data using an ArcGIS Pro 3D model by calculating the 3D nearest neighbor, we knew we were facing a challenging computational problem with exciting potential. The Challenge Our GIS Analyst initially developed a Python script that extracted each…
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ArcGIS Pro and Panzura
Hello everyone. I work for an AEC company with about 1500 employees and around 250 GIS users. Our staff coordinates on projects all over the US. We're currenting running ArcGIS Pro 3.1 locally and also through a shared Citrix VDI Pool. All of our GIS data is stored in it's own project folder on a shared network drive…
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Steps on how to update and share AMIs in AWS
This document shows how to update existing AMIs without creating new ones. Please see steps in attachment.
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Egnyte Cloud Services and ArcGIS Desktop
Our company will be migrating all of our files/data/applications from our aging on premises servers to Egnyte cloud services. Does anyone have any experience with integrating these products? Any recommendations? Some pros and cons in moving in this direction would be helpful as well. We do not have ArcGIS enterprise, just…
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adding projectwise extension to arcmap
I have the ProjectWise cloud server installed on my PC along with ArcMap Desktop 10.7.1, however I am unable to add the ProjectWise extension for ArcMap. Does anyone have experience with this?
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Create Cloud Storage Connection File Supported Cloud Servers
Can "cloud storage connection file" be used to connect to cloud servers other than Azure, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, and Alibaba?
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ArcGIS and AWS
I have a potential project working with several large data files; mainly raster DEMs. I'm doing some fairly simple analyses (e.g. extracting values to points etc.) but running them over my PC will take quite a bit of time. I'm curious if running the analyses through an AWS can speed up the processes? Anyone have any…
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Azure SQL/PaaS - user 'sde' can't kill connections
Hi, We're building a new GIS environment on Azure using Azure SQL databases - PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). Now we have found that the user "sde" has no rights to disconnect open connections (arcpy.DisconnectUser (workspace, "ALL")). According to the online documentation, the user "sde" needs the role "processadmin":…
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Virtual Machines
We are an AEC company that is looking into Virtual Machine (VM) technology and I'm curious to learn more from user experience, hardware and software used, and cost. Currently we have some satellite users copying files locally because their connection to the network is slow. We are hoping to find a VM solution to keep users…
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SSL Certificate in Enterprise AZURE (URL Mapping)
Hello, After I install Enterprise using ArcGIS Builder for Azure, I needed to create a certificate for my deployment. IT generate me a SSL Certificate with the name https://sgis.com.pr, i installed it in my Azure machine in IIS as a binding for 443 but for some reason is not doing a mapping for my Azure URL…
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Cloud Builder for Azure for Linux machines
Does ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Azure supports the deployment on Linux machines?
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Amazon S3 for cache location
Hi there, We are standing up a new AWS environment with the plan for our cache to be hosted in an S3 bucket. All worked fine during initial testing but export map and wms calls are not working - seems they can't find the tiles. Odd thing is standard Rest calls via the JS API etc are. Have a ticket logged with our local…
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ArcGIS License Manager on AWS
Are there any chef scripts, amis or recommendations for running ArcGIS License Manager in AWS? We have a requirement to move everything to AWS but also need to support ArcGIS Desktop licensing from License Manager. ArcGIS Pro can be licensed from Portal, but no such luck for ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap, ArcCatalog, etc). It's…
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Display points from table in another layer
I download .bil files from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State U . I need to store information, that contains in .bil files, in Azure SQL database. Because I don't know how store .bil files in SQL database I do the following: 1. Use toolbox conversion tool -> raster to float. I get file .flt. 2. Use DIVA GIS to convert .flt…
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Best Cloud Hosted Server Sizes for Enterprise Auto-Scaling
Hello, I'm curious if anyone has experience auto-scaling a multi-tier ArcGIS Enterprise on Azure or AWS? If so, what instance types do you use for your Federated GIS Server? I see in the Enterprise Cloud Builder for Azure that Esri defaults to D2_v2's (2 core 7GB RAM) for the 2 Web Adapters, and then DS3_v2's (4 core 14GB…
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Install ArcGIS Enterprise on Google Cloud
Hi, I see that Esri has machine images for cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. What about Google Cloud? I see that Windows and Red Hat Linux servers can be provisioned on the Google Cloud. Has anyone implemented ArcGIS Enterprise on this cloud platform? Doing a search here on GeoNet and on…
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Using AWS CloudFormation - is there an ESRI template for PostGres?
Hi. I'm wanting to use AWS CloudFormation to build a single server deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise. The standard template available for Windows appears to install SQL Server 2016 as the database. I assume that AWS is charging the license for this. I would rather be using PostGres. Does anyone know if there is a template…
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Enterprise ArcGIS in the Cloud with IWA
Is it possible to implement a base ArcGIS Enterprise in the Amazon cloud and configure it with IWA in our internal network?
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installation on Amazon S3: Cloudeberry or ArcGIS Admin
Hi, One of our clients asks about installation on Amazon S3 : Is it better to install using cloudberry OR directly through ArcGIS Admin? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each way. Thanks, Miri
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Does Web Adaptor conflict with Elastic Loab Balancer (ELB) when deploying Javascript webapp?
I am using ESRI CloudBuilder 10.4.1 to fire up a load-balanced GIS site on Amazon EC2. I followed all the instructions and can see my published web services using http:<ELB URL>/arcgis/rest/services. I also want to deploy my Javascript app on the same EC2 server with ArcServer, and I am reading that JS apps need to use web…
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Cloudbuilder reports site didn't start, although it appears that it did
I have a site built using CloudBuilder for Amazon, using the 10.4 AMI. It usually starts up and shuts down fine. But a few times now, when starting up, it sits there forever saying waiting for instance to be ready. However, when I check the actual AWS web console, the EC2 instance is running, and I am also able to…
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Problem creating ArcGIS Server for Windows site using Cloud Builder for AWS
Hi I'm using Cloud Builder to create an ArcGIS for Server 10.4 site on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I'm pretty much choosing the defaults (Windows, no geodatabase, mxlarge instance) and get all the way through to the end of the process. Cloud Builder says it is creating the site. It gets as far as creating the Load Balancer…
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AWS Elastic Load Balancer Token Security
I have a pretty unique situation I think, we are trying to implement something that may not be possible. What we are trying to do is take advantage of the token security in an AWS ELB with Auto Scaling Scenario. If we have an application that has its own custom authentication tier and user management ( NodeJS ), and as…
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ArcGIS for Desktop option on Amazon
Hi There, I am evaluating Amazon cloud as an option for accessing ArcGIS for Desktop (ArcMap) and wanted to know more from other users in the community. We need access to ArcGIS for desktop (ArcMap) for a short term project (3 months). As an option, could go and purchase desktop license but I am curious if cloud provides…
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Sharing a Service to E: on AWS using ArcMAP
I've inherited a Map Server that's implemented on AWS using EC2. ArcGIS Help mentions 'When you first create the cache, you'll write it to an EBS volume that's attached to your EC2 instance. This volume is attached at the time you build your site, and it's a good place to put the cache if the volume is large enough. If the…