topic Service Access For A Client in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Service Access For A Client

JonLynch1 — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:55:30 GMT

I need to provide access to a feature service running to one of our clients. They've requested access to a rest endpoint but, due to the nature of some of the other data on this server, I can't enable the services directory for them. Does anyone have a good way to supply service access without using rest?

Re: Service Access For A Client

RandallWilliams — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:49:55 GMT

I'd like to be sure I understand the requirement here.

I understand that you've disabled the services directory, but that only disables the HTML representation that a user can access in order to perform operations against a web service via a browser. It doesn't prevent clients from communicating with the resource via text/JSON.

Given the nature of the services, could you potentially enable the services directory, secure all of the services, and provide a specific user to the client to access this single web service? Given the sensitivity you mention, I'd expect that most of those services are secured regardless.

Re: Service Access For A Client

BillHarvey1 — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 19:22:45 GMT

Another way is to use folders in ArcGIS Server. For example have a folder called internal and have your admins lock it down, or lock down those services rather. Then have a folder called external and have that opened to the public. This prevents the client from having to use authentication.