Server Aliases and ArcGIS Enterprise Installation

Question

I was wondering what the recommendation is for installing ArcGIS Enterprise if we want to use an alias for the server.  Would you use the actual server's name throughout the installation process and then use the alias to access the server or would you use the alias throughout the installation process?  Right now, we have a mixture of both in different locations throughout the server.  The alias would just be a DNS entry on the network.  We think we're having issues because of the multiple server names.  Our old server was installed with just the actual server name, but aliases worked fine to access it.

BillFox · Answer

give yourself growing options so try not to reference a particular machine name whenever you can

Scott_Tansley · Answer

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/windows/federate-an-arcgis-server-site-with-your-portal.htm

Note the use of a service URL (DNS) and an admin URL which would use the machine name.

NathanHeickLACSD · Answer

Hi Scott,

What do you mean by "For the federation, I'd be using both, with the admin URL pointing to machine1.internal.domain.com."  Sorry, I haven't done in this in two years and I wasn't involved from the start of the process.  Are there multiple URLs you can enter during federation?  Can you federate the same server with different URLs?  The last time I did the installation, I did it manually, but I used the machine name throughout the installation process and only used the DNS entry after the fact.