topic Re: move arcgis server configuration store in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

move arcgis server configuration store

AlexMahrou3 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:05:41 GMT

Is there any way to move the ArcGIS Server Configuration Site storage to another location without disrupting a site?

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

MuryadiOey — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:43:10 GMT

it is possible to move to another location with a little bit disruption.

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

AlexMahrou3 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:17:13 GMT

How much disruption?

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

JonathanQuinn — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:04:38 GMT

It'll definitely restart the Server automatically, so services will go down and come up. How quick that completes will be dependent on how many services you have and the resources on the machine. I'd imagine it copies the config-store and then restarts the Server once the config-store has been copied.

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

AlexMahrou3 — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:18:28 GMT

Yeah but, what's the actual procedure? Just use the REST Admin?

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Re: move arcgis server configuration store

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:38:11 GMT

Alex, you might want to provide a little bit more information. Are you trying to move it to a new server? New folder? New Drive? Are you talking about haveing the data itself move, or are you trying to move the c:\arcgisserver directory (which I don't think you can.....it will create a new one if you wipe it out). Also, what version are you needing to do this with?

You might want to start with the help

ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2)

Back up and restore your ArcGIS Server site configuration—Documentation (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server

In any case, you'll get better answers if you provide additional info.

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

AlexMahrou3 — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:45:28 GMT

Just trying to migrate from local storage to network storage for the arcgis directories. Which will make clustering and potential host changes easier.

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Re: move arcgis server configuration store

JonathanQuinn — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:50:15 GMT

You can either use the Admin API or use Server Manager:

Admin API:

Server Manager:

Server Manager simply calls into the Admin API

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 00:50:38 GMT

How about creating another datastore and pointing your services tot he new location?

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

DennisSmith — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:54:02 GMT

As Jon Q pointed out moving the config-store you may also look at moving the directories along with this. If in the future you ever wish to join another machine to the existing site this will only work if the config-store and directories are in a shared location that both machines can access.

Re: move arcgis server configuration store

AlexMahrou3 — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 16:22:00 GMT

Excellent. Thank you. Points awarded. My bigger issue, which I failed to disclose, is that I'm trying to migrate to a new host and not disrupt anything. Part of this was to change the architecture of the configuration store to redundant network storage (my question above).

After talking with Esri support, they said that there's no bulletproof way right now to move an ArcGIS Server site to a new host-- they might be working on a migration tool in 10.5, but that's a few months out I guess.