ArcGIS Server 10.5 Cannot add machine to site due to connection failure to config-store and directories

StevenHeadley — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 13:23:07 GMT

I have a system set up with 10 servers. I have 4 sites, with 2 machines in each site. I have an internal web server and an external web server with IIS containing web adaptors. The first 3 sites installations went without a problem. I installed ArcGIS Server on all the machines, clustered the 2 machines per site, created the web adaptors, connected them to an internal web server. When I got to the last site, I loaded ArcGIS server, just like before, and I got the error the config-store connection failed, and that the specific location in not accessible. Ensure that ArcGIS Server account has read and write access to the location.

I have my config-store and directories on a file share. My admin account that I used to load AGS has full permissions to those folders. I know this because the folders for each site are located in the same directory.

I had this issue with the first server in the site, and I had my server guy rebuild the server from a saved backup. I did a clean install on a clean server and it worked. So I thought I had the problem solved, but when I went to add a second machine to that site, I get the same error. Had the server guy do the same thing, restore the server from a saved image. Nothing. We tried this 3 times. The issue I can't explain is the exact same process has been done on 7 machines, and on the 8th (and last), it sending this error.

I have also tried creating the config store locally on the server machine, and then trying to edit the location, and that does not work, same error. I can connect to the unc path through windows explorer, so I know the server can see the file server.

Any help would be appreciated. Very frustrating. I have attached a screen shot of the system error, and a diagram of our architecture.

Re: ArcGIS Server 10.5 Cannot add machine to site due to connection failure to config-store and directories

JonathanQuinn — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:21:12 GMT

I would use ProcMon to determine the file activity that occurs when Server attempts to write to that location. You can filter for the specific directory path so you only return traffic to that directory. I assume you'll see some errors in the log.

Re: ArcGIS Server 10.5 Cannot add machine to site due to connection failure to config-store and directories

BillFox — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:55:37 GMT

Hi Steven,

I gave up fighting that kind of error and just used a single machine (local config-store) with doubled the Virtual resources

-Bill

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