https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/find-map-service-data-source/m-p/1220908#M7883 <P>I need to be able to find the data source of all referenced map services within Portal. I have written a script to do this, however it feels unnecessarily clunky, does anyone know whether there is a better, simpler way to achieve this? For image services, this path information is easily located within the service properties, I cannot seem to find this equivelant information for map services (just the .msd is there which isn't helpful).</P><P>In an ideal world I would update all the source data paths as we've had a DFS change, but editing the manifest.json seems wrought with danger. A less hacky way would be hugely helpful!</P><LI-CODE lang="python">from pathlib import Path import json gis = GIS("URL") servers = gis.admin.servers for server in servers.list(): serviceManager = server.services folders = serviceManager.folders for folder in folders: services = serviceManager.list(folder=folder) for service in services: properties_dict = service.properties["properties"] if service.properties.portalProperties.portalItems[0].type == 'MapServer': # create new path string to the manifest.json filepath = properties_dict['filePath'] parts = Path(filepath).parts new_path = str(Path(*parts[:parts.index('extracted')+1 / 'manifest.json') with open(new_path, 'r') as f: data = json.load(f) path = [] for db in data['databases']: path.append(db['onServerConnectionString'])</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:47:24 GMT JessicaRouns 2022-10-11T21:47:24Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/find-map-service-data-source/m-p/1220908#M7883 <P>I need to be able to find the data source of all referenced map services within Portal. I have written a script to do this, however it feels unnecessarily clunky, does anyone know whether there is a better, simpler way to achieve this? For image services, this path information is easily located within the service properties, I cannot seem to find this equivelant information for map services (just the .msd is there which isn't helpful).</P><P>In an ideal world I would update all the source data paths as we've had a DFS change, but editing the manifest.json seems wrought with danger. A less hacky way would be hugely helpful!</P><LI-CODE lang="python">from pathlib import Path import json gis = GIS("URL") servers = gis.admin.servers for server in servers.list(): serviceManager = server.services folders = serviceManager.folders for folder in folders: services = serviceManager.list(folder=folder) for service in services: properties_dict = service.properties["properties"] if service.properties.portalProperties.portalItems[0].type == 'MapServer': # create new path string to the manifest.json filepath = properties_dict['filePath'] parts = Path(filepath).parts new_path = str(Path(*parts[:parts.index('extracted')+1 / 'manifest.json') with open(new_path, 'r') as f: data = json.load(f) path = [] for db in data['databases']: path.append(db['onServerConnectionString'])</LI-CODE><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:47:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-api-for-python-questions/find-map-service-data-source/m-p/1220908#M7883 JessicaRouns 2022-10-11T21:47:24Z