Use a desktop .bat file or other method to trigger a Data Interop Spatial ETL tool/.fme file to run on a remote computer

kmsmikrud

Hi,

We have purchased a few data interoperability desktop licenses with one that is dedicated to a virtual machine to run scheduled tools. This will meet some of our needs, but I would also like to trigger the .fme file or ETL Spatial Tool to run on demand from a local computer. Is this possible?

My use case is we do not have enough desktop licenses for users to check out in ArcGIS Pro, but I thought maybe it would be possible for a user to enter in the parameters in a .bat file and those are passed along to the ETL tool on the VM, as an on demand way of using the tool.

We did not purchase the Data Interoperability Server license to publish a web tool to our enterprise so I believe that option is out since it would be dependent on the desktop user having the license.

Anonymous User

Interesting use case indeed.  Technically running a batch file on the local computer is not possible - assuming you are planning to use Windows Command line to run on that batch file. 

A better approach may be is to use the Task Scheduler on the local machine and Connect to the remote machine to run the ETL tool.  

At the bottom part of this blog written by Bruce Harold shows how to configure a similar task to run an ETL tool in Task Scheduler.
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-data-interoperability-blog/scheduling-web-etl-with-arcgis-data/ba-p/883747

Of course, some user permissions on the remote machine need to be set for the user running the tool. Also, there is a setting in the Task properties that the task can be run on demand.

Hope that helps.