topic Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

TonyDaSilva — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:43:37 GMT

Hi,

I'm having an issue with ArcGIS Server (10.3.1) where it wont cache the east side of Canada.

The map projection is ..

WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere

WKID: 3857

The extent used is pretty much something like the red line. I've played around with a few variations (using province polygons, changing the projection) nothing seems to fix the problem.

Any ideas?

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 21:06:55 GMT

You might want to move this to the Server place GeoNet Community Structure

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

MichaelVolz — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 18:51:50 GMT

What kind of error messages are you getting, if any?

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

TonyDaSilva — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:16:41 GMT

From the cache job, it finishes with no errors. No log entries for the service itself or the caching services.

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:55:02 GMT

What's the source of your data? Is it your own, so you know for sure the data exists in that location, at the scales you are trying to cache?

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

TonyDaSilva — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:12:00 GMT

Yes, we have the data and it exists. Everything looks fine in the MXD before publishing.

On a side note, I've also noticed a bug where the cache settings do not get saved. If I go back in and change it again, everything seems to change except the "Update cache automatically" setting, which always switches back to automatic every time I save the changes.

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:29:17 GMT

Just as a test, I would stop the service, rename the cache directory for this service then edit the properties for the service again (may need to start the service back up to see the cache properties). See if that makes a different. If it rolls right back into auto-creation, you may want to recreate (delete old service, recreate new...or stop other and recreate with a different name for testing). Then try it again. You can always move/rename etc the cache you've already created so you don't need to lose that time.

A couple other things to check....Refreshing the cache status

And making sure you temp folder, typically on the c: drive, isn't running out of space. This isn't an issue as much since 10.1, but the folder that used to fill up on me in 10.1 was the

\users\<ArcGISSOC...now probably AGS admin>\Appdata\Local\Temp

Just a few things to check.

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

MatthewDobson — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:39:14 GMT

I put my two cents in to a similar issue over on this post: https://community.esri.com/thread/62725?sr=inbox&ru=153770. My issues were solved by doing a repair geometry on each layer in the FGDB source for the cache mxd. There weren't many errors, but the auto-fix (including deleting null-geometry features) has made a difference.

Matthew

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

ChristoforosKatsaounis — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:35:41 GMT

Hi Tony,

Apologies for jumping in so late but here are my inputs in case this is still an issue:

1) From one of the screenshots above it appears that you are using the AGOL tiling scheme, could you confirm and tell us what your min-max scales used are?

2) What does your Cache Status tool report? If you could post a screenshot of this it would also help.

3) Is this an single machine ArcGIS Server site or multi machine?

4) Could you initiate the cache again (from Catalog> Connect to your ArcGIS Server> Right click on service> Manage Cache> Manage Tiles, and then choose to recreate all tiles but only for the empty scale levels as reported from the Cache Status (from point 2 above).

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

PaulLohr — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:28:13 GMT

Old thread, just in case someone comes across this problem - maybe this will help. I had a similar issue when attempting to cache a parcels layer. Just like your case, there was no error message. I am pretty sure that tech support figured out that there were too many vertices - server could not cache the entire layer. I wonder if this has been added to the documentation by now. A useful test might be to reduce the number of vertices drastically then attempt to create the cache again.

Re: ArcGIS Server wont cache entire extent

RandallWilliams — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:49:31 GMT

Conversely, you could create 3+ different areas of interest (three different polygons) as AOI inputs, and then run 3+ update cache jobs referencing those polygons. That way you can keep your vertices without generalization and (hopefully) complete the jobs. You could also use scale dependent rendering where at small scales you have generalized features, and at large scales you have more precision. You'd still likely need multiple cache jobs for large scales.