My GIS Analyst and were discussing today whether a geocode service has dependencies after it is published to a standalone ArcGIS Server. Here is what our environments look like:
We have two standalone ArcGIS servers (version 11.1). One of these servers has the locator (.loc) files on it. We published a geocode service to the other ArcGIS server (the one without the locator files on it) using the locator files on the server that does have them. We used the setting to copy all the files to the server during the publishing. Our question is, if the server with the locator files goes down or goes away for whatever reason, would the geocode service on the other server (the one without the locator files) stop working? in other words, is it dependent on those locator files on the other server to work? I hope that makes sense.
My Analyst says that there are dependencies (meaning that any service published with those locator files would go down if the locator files went away or were unavailable). I am not so sure since it is copying the files during the publishing process. This makes me believe that it wouldn't have any dependencies. Thoughts? Thank you for your resposne.
