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Thank you @JeffSilberberg! Great question! For the initial 12.1 release, the product team focused heavily on achieving functional equivalency with GeoEvent Server. The main focus was around out-of-the-box capabilities first, and then some custom add-on capabilities (such as the example you linked) second. This work will largely continue with subsequent releases; with the goal of closing the gap as much as possible over time and releases. In some cases, equivalency has been achieved by making certain feeds, outputs, and tools in a 1:1 direct manner. Think the TCP (client) feed, or the Watch a Folder for Local Files feed. These have parity with GeoEvent Server specific input connectors using TCP or local files, and have been introduced to Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise 12.1+. Current users of Velocity for ArcGIS Online may have seen the roll out of capabilities that were taken directly from GeoEvent Server in preparation of the Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise release. For example, Route by Expressions was introduced to Velocity for ArcGIS Online to achieve parity with GeoEvent Server's Choice element. This tool, and all the other Velocity (Online) tools, feeds, and outputs, are available in Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise at 12.1. The product team will continually work towards maintaining parity between Velocity for ArcGIS Online and Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise in the same way that ArcGIS Online and Portal for ArcGIS have parity. In some other scenarios, functional equivalency has been accomplished by ensuring certain capabilities could be achieved through other means than a direct 1:1 copy of a tool, input, our output. I think the Detect Idle processor is a good example of this. It exists as a custom add-on processor for GeoEvent Server, but similar functionality is possible through configuring the Calculate Motion Statistics tool in Velocity. Another example can be found with regex support. Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise lacks it while GeoEvent Server supports it. This is mainly because Arcade functions in Velocity can be used to achieve much of what regex was good for in GeoEvent Server. The product team recognizes however that regex offers some capabilities that Arcade doesn't, and so work is ongoing to bring a new regex tool to both distributions of Velocity in the future. We hope this gives you and others an idea of how Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise will be supported moving forward. In the short term we are working on closing the functional gaps between it and GeoEvent Server. In the long run, we will maintain parity between Velocity for ArcGIS Enterprise and Velocity for ArcGIS Online. If you or anyone else feels that certain capabilities from GeoEvent Server are missing, or in general have ideas for new features, we welcome you to share your ideas here or work with Esri Support Services to ensure enhancements are captured on your behalf. Thank you! ... View more

Hi @Kristofer - This issue typically speaks to a certificate configuration issue. We'd be happy to take a look and help, but first can you post this within the early adopter community so that its not lost? That's where we're curating feedback and have several members of the product team ready to review this further and assist. Thank you! ... View more

Hi @GarrettMelvin @BenClark - GeoEvent Server/Manager was designed to be an administrator facing application.  The original intent was that a administrator would access GeoEvent Manager, configure the necessary GeoEvent Services, and then non-admins would consume the outputs of the GeoEvent Services (e.g. feature layers or stream layers updated in real-time, emails, etc). Thought about another way, GeoEvent Manager provides an authenticated user some really powerful settings that could make or break an organization's solutions. Changing just one suite of setting, such as the incident detector settings for example, could impact multiple downstream GeoEvent Services in a way that might not be clear to the user who made the change to begin with when thinking about their own GeoEvent Service. That's primarily why GeoEvent Server is admin-facing. GeoEvent Manager was never designed with different user views in mind because of the way the application broadly exposes global settings and integrates with sometimes sensitive systems/APIs. It was also largely built before the whole notion of Portal/user types was mainstream. If this doesn't sound exactly ideal, we agree! That's why we worked to improve upon this situation in ArcGIS Velocity by building the entire application with a focus on supporting different user types, roles, privileges and more. Coming back to GeoEvent -- While its possible to login to GeoEvent Manager as an ArcGIS Server "publisher" role, you really won't be able to do much other than see what's been configured. In fact, GeoEvent Manager will display a warning message about using a non-admin account, and upon trying to take an action such as creating/editing an input connector, the user will be signed out altogether. Its not a great user experience, and I certainly wouldn't offer it as an answer to "Is there any way to grant access to this tool without also allowing full admin rights?". You can't really do much as an ArcGIS Server "publisher". You need to be an ArcGIS Server "admin" at a minimum. "...Does that mean we cannot add user accounts to access GeoEvent Manager on a non-federated server, unless they are an administrative account? " - I would say this is accurate, yes. I would recommend not federating GeoEvent Server with Portal. Instead, keep GeoEvent Server standalone and in the underlying ArcGIS Server for GeoEvent, create an ArcGIS Server admin account. This admin account won't have any admin privileges' in respect to the Portal (which has its own separate user store) unless the person with this account chose to federate. For all intents and purposes, its an admin of the GeoEvent Server + ArcGIS Server in isolation. This "ArcGIS Server admin" doesn't have any relevancy/link to the Portal and its user store. You would not be creating an administrator account of the Portal. Again, I know this isn't ideal because there might be one-off nuanced security/access concerns to consider, but this approach keeps a degree of admin separation. I hope this helps clear things up! Message me if you have other questions about what I wrote.     ... View more

Hi @ChrisCarter3 - Understood! The "Poll an ArcGIS Server for Features" input connector that is available out of the box does not have a property that controls the timeout. This is primarily because the "FeatureService" transport that the aforementioned connector uses doesn't have that property as something you can expose. This is true even if you created your own custom copy of the connector via Manager > Site > Connectors, and then tried to tweak the settings. I'm assuming my colleague @EricIronside was either referring to 1) increasing the polling interval, or 2) using a custom connector whose transport is not "FeatureService", but instead a different transport that exposes a property for influencing the client side timeout. If you're interested in the latter scenario, you could create your own custom connector via GeoEvent Manager that pairs the JSON adaptor with the HTTP transport (rather than the FeatureServer transport). It's a bit of an unorthodox workflow, but you should be able to make a query against your feature service with a bit more effort. Most importantly, the HTTP transport does expose the HTTPtimeoutvalue property. I tested this on my end (manager > site > connectors > create new connector). I set the type to "input", the adapter to "JSON", and the transport to "HTTP". You can configure whichever properties you want shown/hidden, but the key thing to note in the list of options is that there's a "HTTP Timeout (in seconds)" property now. I called my custom connector "Poll a Feature Service for Esri Feature JSON" but you can call yours whatever you'd like. Once you finish creating this connector, go through the process of adding it as a new input for configuration & use. The reason I said this is an unorthodox workflow & requires a bit more effort is because you'll need to provide the URL to the feature service you want to query along with the full query string, token, and whatever else might be needed. For example, this is part of what I provided in the URL parameter: "https://<my_geoevent_server>:6443/arcgis/rest/services/SampleWorldCities/MapServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&text=&objectIds=&time=&timeRelation=... ... ...etc etc". A good way to obtain this URL is to perform the query yourself at REST, ensuring that the format returned is set to JSON. Copy the full encoded URL and provide that in the URL parameter. I also needed to specify the acceptable MIME type as "application/JSON". Your URL, parameters, and more, will vary. The FeatureService and HTTP transports both allow you to make a HTTP request to a feature service, but where the FeatureService transport is specifically geared for navigating ArcGIS server's and querying services natively with little effort, the HTTP transport is more general for querying any sort of REST endpoint / API and so it requires more leg work to use with feature service queries.  ... View more

For anyone looking at this, I should add that different transports expose different properties for handling timeouts. Transports are just one half of what makes up an input or output connector; with the other half being the adaptor. For example, the "Poll an ArcGIS Server for Features" input connector pairs the JSON adaptor with the Feature Server transport. The Feature Server transport does not contain a property for handling timeouts hence my response above. I am assuming that the timeout in question is a server timeout which is where the feature service would need to be changed in ArcGIS Server. In contrast, the "Push Text to an External TCP Socket" output connector pairs the Text adaptor with the TCP transport. The TCP transport does contain a property, "Connection Timeout" for handling timeouts server side (GeoEvent). All of this is to say the answer to the above question is largely contingent on the type of connector in question when thinking about GeoEvent Server. Its important to consider this; and whether a timeout is client side or server side. ... View more

Hi @ChrisCarter3 - GeoEvent Server is a client application that consumes from feature services. The timeout setting you're looking for is often going to be found server side (i.e. where the feature service resides); not client side. Put another way, ArcGIS Server is where you'll be able to control the service timeout thresholds for any particular service. I'd check out the following documentation. It seems that you can adjust the timeout threshold on services via ArcGIS Server Manager > navigating to the service in question > explore the "pooling" tab. Alternatively, if you know the average response time of the service is 45 seconds for the type of query you're trying to perform, you can adjust GeoEvent Server's input to poll (read: query) every 45+ seconds so that GeoEvent Server isn't asking for records faster than ArcGIS Server can return them. This is just an example by the way - hopefully the query response time isn't that latent. If it is, there are other strategies that can be employed to improve the query response time if you don't want to increase the timeout threshold. ... View more

Hi @GarrettMelvin - The above information still largely holds true in the context of ArcGIS Velocity - that is, there are dozens if not hundreds of different APIs/data providers out there who each have their own strategy for handling pagination. As a result, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to support pagination out of the box. The recommended strategy at this time is to utilize the gRPC feed type to act as a bridge for bringing in paginated data per the requirements of the API/data provider in question. See gRPC. Another method would be to use the HTTP receiver feed to have some other bridge provider send data to Velocity. The product team has been exploring how we can perhaps support some common pagination methods in an effort to achieve a partial out-of-the-box solution but it has yet to be seen what are the most widely 'popular' or 'common' pagination methods. We would kindly ask that folks submit feedback on this topic to the ideas site, or as an enhancement request with Esri Support Services. ... View more

Hi @TylerKiehle1 - There's no specific delay setting but there are two options you could consider: 1. Create a staging folder that GeoEvent doesn't look at. Once the file has been written entirely to the staging folder, you can use a script or something similar to move it to the folder that GeoEvent is looking at and will start reading from. 2. You can configure GeoEvent to look for a file of a specific name. Once Pi creates and writes all of its data to this file, use some sort of task/script to change the name to the specific one that GeoEvent is looking for. ... View more

Hi @Moi_Nccncc - Yes you can if you're using a geofence synchronization rule on a feature or stream service and you have a string type field in your data whose literal string values are either true or false. Assuming you've met this criteria, you can configure your geofence sync rule to use that said field as the "active field". Feature records whose active field value are "true" will continue to be used as geofences. Those that are "false" will not be used as geofences for further processing. I've included a screenshot below of what I am talking about in the sync rule settings: If you have all this in place, you can configure a GeoEvent service to process geofence records and use different logic paths to set the active field value to true or false based on your needs. It's worth noting that you can also control whether or not a geofence is active based on time extents as well, but the tried and true method is going to be to use the active field property. ... View more

If I were in your shoes, I would give it a try but obviously there are other details to consider (e.g. what resources are available on the machine, is GeoEvent Server competing for those resources, are other inputs/outputs/GeoEvent services running on your instance of GeoEvent Server, etc). At a glance... 1. 1,500 point geofences doesn't seem alarmingly high. They have simple geometries (x,y) which is a major plus. I'd be more concerned if you had 1,500 complex polygons (i.e. high vertices count). 2. Updating those AVL "geofences" every minute doesn't seem all that bad either. That is within the scope of what a stream service (for a sync rule) could support (but again, this is based on the other factors I mentioned above). 3. This is the biggest question; how many areas are there? Are they complex polygons? How frequently are you looking to check them for truck intersection? If they're simple polygons, there aren't many, and you only need to see their point-in-time status once every minute or so, this could work. If your answer is the opposite (i.e. they are all complex polygons, you have hundreds instead of dozens, and you need them updated every 5 seconds, then that could be an issue where you see performance bog down some and not keep up in real-time). Again, if I were in your shoes I would put together a pseudo proof of concept and see how it works for you. That's really the best way to know for certain (especially because there are other factors that could be at play like I mentioned above that I am personally not aware of). In the event that you find its not what you want, there can be other ways to potentially go about your problem. For example you could track the trucks again and geotag them with the name of the geofence area they intersect with. In another field you could have the name of the area they're assigned to. If the geofence (geotag) name field == the assigned area name, there might be a way to use that condition to affect another GeoEvent Service to update a separate areas dataset to have an area status set to covered. This might require some more tinkering/logic though. ... View more

@Moi_Nccncc - I assume that the areas are (or can be) geofences coming from a feature layer or stream layer? If this is true, you can ingest the areas every "x" seconds or minutes from this feature layer using an input connector (e.g. poll an arcgis server for features). Simultaneously, you have your truck data coming in somehow. You can push those trucks to a stream layer & use said stream layer (via a geofence synchronization rule) to act as point geofences that are updating frequently.  With this setup, you can begin to answer real-time questions such as "when does my area (polygon event), contain a truck (point geofence)?". You can refine this even further; "when does my area (site "xyz"), contain a truck (of type "Alpha")? If the truck is of type "Alpha", consider area xyz fully covered. However, if the truck is of type "Beta", consider area xyz half covered.    To me it sounds like you're not trying to capture the status of the truck, but rather the status of the area based on its interaction with the truck if that makes sense. I hope this helps but let me know if it does not. ... View more

Hi @YObaidat - As an out-of-the-box capability, the answer is no. That's not to say its impossible however. Rather, its likely that you would need to develop a custom transport/adaptor for handling messages via thread in the format/protocol of matter. An alternative solution would be to push these messages to some other endpoint or broker that GeoEvent can then tap into with an out-of-the-box connector (e.g. Kafka). ... View more

Hi@meb323 - It could be that the token error means the service isn't accessible since the credentials to ArcGIS Online (where I presume the service is?) are bad. You'd want to check your GeoEvent data store connections & credentials to see whether or not your connection to ArcGIS Online validates. It could be that the credentials you provided have access to reading the service, but not writing to it. Just something else to consider. Assuming the credentials are good, you own the service, and that you can edit the service, my next suggestion would be to ensure you have your TRACK_ID tags set correctly. You might know that the feature record  for car with plate "ABC321" was updated, and should then be updated in the output feature layer as such, but GeoEvent doesn't necessarily know which field value its supposed to use to uniquely identify and manage each record on output so they're all just "cars" if that makes sense. Make sure your input connector definition has a field set with the TRACK_ID tag set to unique identify and manage records from one another in the pipeline of your GeoEvent Service. If this definition is the same one used for the output connector, you should be good to go. If you somehow have a different definition for the output connector, make sure that output definition has the TRACK_ID tag appropriately set to the correct field too. Putting this back into the context of an example, the correct usage of a TRACK_ID will let GeoEvent know that it needs to update the record whose plate is "ABC321" with the values it processed in the output feature service. For more, check out this doc. I hope this helps and makes sense but please don't hesitate to message me if it doesn't. It could be that the issue is none of what I mentioned in which case I might suggest reaching out to Support Services for further investigation. ... View more