ArcGIS for Server: Site Configuration and Administration Class Resources

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Here are links to resources that will help solidify and augment your understanding of the topics covered in the ArcGIS for Server: Site Configuration and Administration course. They are organized into the themes explored, though some of the resources are applicable to more than one theme:

• Installation
• Security
• Data management
• Performance
• Deployment options
• Additional Resources

1.       Installation

Lessons:

1.  Planning an ArcGIS Server site

2.  Deploying an ArcGIS Server site

4.  Integrating a web server

• PDF:                         ArcGIS for Server Functionality Matrix
• Video:                       ArcGIS for Server: An Introduction
• Documentation:          What is ArcGIS for Server?
• Documentation:          Components of ArcGIS for Server
• Documentation:          What's included with ArcGIS for Server
• Documentation:          ArcGIS Server editions
• Documentation:          System Requirements and Installation Guides:
  • ArcGIS for Server
  • Web Adaptor
  • Portal for ArcGIS
  • Data Store
• Documentation:          The ArcGIS Server account
• Documentation:          Inside an ArcGIS Server site
• Documentation:          About server directories
• Documentation:          What types of services can you publish?
• Documentation:          About creating web GIS applications
• Documentation:          Single-machine deployment
• Documentation:          About the ArcGIS Web Adaptor
• Documentation:          ArcGIS Server on cloud platforms
• Documentation:          What is Portal for ArcGIS?
• Documentation:          OGC support in ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          KML support in ArcGIS Server

2.       Security and Server management

Lessons:

1.  Planning an ArcGIS Server site

3.  Controlling access to ArcGIS Server

9.  Securing services

10.  Securing the ArcGIS Server site

11.  Site backup and recovery

• Video:                        ArcGIS Server and Portal for ArcGIS: An Introduction to Security
• Video:                        ArcGIS Server: Advanced Security
• Documentation:          Securing your ArcGIS Server site
• Documentation:          How ArcGIS Server security works
• Documentation:          Best practices for configuring a secure environment
• Documentation:          Configuring ArcGIS Server security
• Documentation:          Managing ArcGIS Server users and roles
• Documentation:          Advanced considerations when using domain accounts
• Documentation:          Restricting access to ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          Restricting access to GIS web services
• Documentation:          Disabling the primary site administrator account
• Documentation:          Disabling administrative access to ArcGIS Server on port 6080
• Documentation:          Hiding a service in the ArcGIS Server Services Directory
• Documentation:          Disabling the Services Directory
• Documentation:          About standardized queries
• Documentation:          About ArcGIS tokens
• Documentation:          Configuring ArcGIS Server's authentication tier
• Documentation:          Securing web services with Integrated Windows Authentication
• Documentation:          Supporting a mix of public and private services
• Documentation:          Securing ArcGIS Server communication
• Documentation:          Introduction to SSL
• Documentation:          Firewalls and ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          Ports used by ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          Using a reverse proxy server with ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          Using a forward proxy server with ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          Backing up and restoring your ArcGIS Server site configuration
• Documentation:          About the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory
• Documentation:          Scripting ArcGIS Server administration
• Documentation:          Scripting with the ArcGIS REST API
• Documentation:          Scripting languages and the ArcGIS REST API
• Documentation:          Scripting service publishing with ArcPy
• Documentation:          ArcGIS Server command line utilities
• Documentation:          Work with server logs
• Documentation:          About draft services
• Documentation:          Common problems and solutions

3.       Data management

Lessons:

1. Planning an ArcGIS Server site

5. Managing service resources

6. Configuring service capabilities

• Documentation:          Data storage considerations for an ArcGIS Server site
• Documentation:          Making your data accessible to ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          Copying data to the server automatically when publishing
• Documentation:          About registering your data with ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          What is a geodata service?
• Documentation:          Publishing a geodata service with a map service
• Documentation:          Suggestions for configuring geodata services
• Documentation:          What is a feature service?
• Documentation:          About editing services
• Documentation:          Ownership-based access control for feature services
• Documentation:          Register a workgroup geodatabase with ArcGIS Server
• Tutorial:                     Performing web editing using replicated data from an enterprise geodatabase
• Documentation:          Mobile data services
• Documentation:          Stream Services
• Documentation:          Prepare data for offline use
• Documentation:          Offline maps and versioned data

 
 

4.       Performance

Lessons:

1. Planning an ArcGIS Server site

5. Managing service resources

6. Tuning services and troubleshooting issues

8. Creating and updating caches

12. Building multi-node sites

• Video:                       ArcGIS Server Performance and Scalability: Optimizing GIS Services
• Documentation:          Anticipating and accommodating users
• Documentation:          Tuning and configuring services
• Documentation:          Troubleshooting map service performance with server logs
• Documentation:          About server logs
• Documentation:          About server statistics
• Documentation:          Working with server statistics
• Documentation:          Map authoring considerations
• Documentation:          Drawing behaviors of the map service
• Documentation:          Supported functionality in map services
• Documentation:          About dynamic layers
• Documentation:          Setting map service properties
• Documentation:          Planning a map cache
• Documentation:          Ways to add tiles to a cache
• Documentation:          Strategies for creating map cache tiles
• Documentation:          Accelerating map cache creation
• Documentation:          Labels in map caches
• Documentation:          Tips and best practices for map caches
• Documentation:          Allocation of server resources to caching
• Documentation:          Automating cache creation and updates with geoprocessing
• Documentation:          Map caching on demand
• Documentation:          Common caching questions
• Documentation:          Performance tips for geoprocessing services
• Documentation:          About extending services
• Documentation:          Alternatives to server object extensions
• Documentation:          Multiple machine deployment with ArcGIS Web Adaptor
• Documentation:          Multiple machine deployment with third party load balancer
• Documentation:          Multiple machine deployment with GIS server clusters

           

5.       Deployment options

Lessons:

1. Planning an ArcGIS Server site

2. Deploying an ArcGIS Server site

4. Integrating a web server

12. Building multi-node sites

13. Implementing ArcGIS Server

• Video:                        ArcGIS for Server: Reference Implementations
• Documentation:          Deployment scenarios
• Documentation:          Single-machine deployment with reverse proxy server
• Documentation:          Single-machine high-availability (active-passive) deployment
• Documentation:          Single-machine high-availability (active-active) deployment
• Documentation:          ArcGIS Server on cloud platforms
• Documentation:          The ArcGIS Server AMIs
• Documentation:          Strategies for data transfer to Amazon Web Services
• Documentation:          ArcGIS Server caches in Amazon EC2
• Documentation:          Geodatabases and ArcGIS Server on Amazon Web Services
• Documentation:          Replication to an Amazon Web Services instance using geodata services
• Documentation:          Use a geodata service and a connected replica
• Documentation:          AWS CloudFormation and high availability with ArcGIS Server
• Documentation:          ArcGIS Server in development, staging, and production environments
• Documentation:          Federate an ArcGIS Server site with your portal
• Documentation:          What is ArcGIS Data Store?
• Documentation:          What is ArcGIS GeoEvent Extension for Server?

Additional resources

• Software:                      ArcGIS Server Administration Toolkit - 10.1+
• Software:                      System Monitor (1.1.6)
• GeoNet Space:              ArcGIS for Server