Migrate Geoproccesing Service to new instance

Question

Hi...

for a data center migration, I have to migrate an ArcGIS Enterprise Server.

It has Geoprocessing services, where I don't have the ressources. Is it possible to move/copy these services from one instance to another? And what steps would be necessary?

Thanks
L.

Aled Wyn Jones · Answer

@TCSystemteam

Once you've copied those files away from that directory, you will be able to use the Desktop client (ArcGIS Pro) to publish the Tool contained within the .tbx (you can expand .tbx in ArcGIS Pro).

To publish the tool, you will need to run it and publish the result from the Desktop Client. Here's some documentation: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/analysis/geoprocessing/share-analysis/publishing-web-tools-in-arcgis-pro.htm

TCSystemteam · Answer

Hi @A_Wyn_Jones, thank you for input.

The old machine is standalone on Linux. So the 3rd suggestion seems the best.

But what exactly do i do with these ressources in the ..\p30 directory? How do I bring them on the new instance?

Thanks,
L.

Aled Wyn Jones · Answer

@TCSystemteam - please have a look at the out of the box solution to migrate a ArcGIS Enterprise Server. Depending on your configuration, there's different recommendations.

If you have federated ArcGIS Enterprise - WebGISDr will do all the heavy lifting for you and migrate your content. This depends on the friendly DNS alias you are using - if you can't reuse this DNS alias then WebGISDr may not be for you as there's additional work required to translate the content URLs to a new friendly DNS alias.

Here's a couple of articles on webgisdr to help you:

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/linux/overview-backup-restore-web-gis.htm

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-enterprise/administration/migrate-to-a-new-machine-in-arcgis-enterprise-two/

If you have a unfederated (Stand alone) ArcGIS Server - there is a backup restore method here: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/develop/windows/backup-utility.htm

ArcGIS Server has the ability to change machine name, be mindful of a webcontextURL if you have set one as this may need to be updated.

If none of these options are for you and you just need to find the resources of your previous geoprocessing tool, you will need to access the VM running ArcGIS Server to grab the following files. WARNING - do not use this directory to work with the data. Copy the required resources away from this location.

The example directory below contains the toolbox (.tbx) which was used to publish the service - in your situation, depending on the geoprocessing tools requirements, you may find all required resources in this directory.

C:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\Community_Test.GPServer\extracted\p30