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How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

Rakibul_IslamRoni — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:19:48 GMT

Hi, I need to copy Map service which is created in ArcGIS server 10.1 (sp1), to another ArcGIS server (10.1 sp1) machine. I am trying to do this process manually by copying service file from C:\arcgisserver\config-store\services and C:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgiscache and *.JSON files. Service can read by new machine but cannot start the service. So please give a direction that how can i do this work.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

JonathanQuinn — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:57:59 GMT

I've never gotten this to work and don't know if it's possible. I'd suggest you move the cache, copy the mxd over to the new server, and publish a service with the same name as the cache folder. It'll pick up that it's supposed to be cached.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

SebastienPetit — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:14:59 GMT

Hi, I need to copy Map service which is created in ArcGIS server 10.1 (sp1), to another ArcGIS server (10.1 sp1) machine. I am trying to do this process manually by copying service file from C:\arcgisserver\config-store\services and C:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgiscache and *.JSON files. Service can read by new machine but cannot start the service. So please give a direction that how can i do this work.

Dont know why it is in ArcGIS online but we managed to "transfer-copy" services from one machine to another with ArcGIS Server 10.1sp1.

You must keep the same name for the folder.

You will have to copy all the ressources from server A to server B. The best is to check all folders and subfolders in arcgisserver folder.
In our case we had to copy from
\arcgisserver\config-store\services
\arcgisserver\directories\arcgiscache
\arcgisserver\directories\arcgisoutput
\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

TomSchuller — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:21:04 GMT

Just solved us several hours of migration time.

Thanks,
Tom

In our case we had to copy from
\arcgisserver\config-store\services
\arcgisserver\directories\arcgiscache
\arcgisserver\directories\arcgisoutput
\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

TimothyPoe — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:50:23 GMT

If you find you have to make edits to the service such as a data connection, here is an article on editing the .MSD.

Best,

Tim

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

PaulFerro1 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:28:06 GMT

I am with J.Quinn and roni0512 on this one. I have copied all of the ArcGIS directories noted below plus accompanying .mxds from server A to B. The services are read on server B but are not able to be started. In ArcCatalog I get the error message:

ERROR: Service failed to start,
 Machine: myServer.COM [null]

In ArcGIS (AGS) Server Manager, there are even thumbnails of the services but the start button is grayed out at Status reads "Stopping..."
I then restarted ArcGIS Server in IIS, and Status still reads "Stopping..."

I did NOT copy .site from the directories listed below.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
update: I repeated the process, this time stopping AGS in IIS first, then copied all of the directories plus .site and my services show up again, this time status is "Started" and all of the service URL's are there as REST endpoints but pinging the URL you get the error:

Error: Error handling service request : 0x80070005 -
Code: 500

When trying to add a service to ArcMap I get the Warning:
Could not add the specified data object to the map.
Could not connect to the Map Server.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

SebastienPetit — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 08:08:24 GMT

Also we developped some tool to do that in a more automatic way :

GitHub - eea/discomap.ServiceTransferTool: Transfer tool

Others tools

European Environment Agency · GitHub

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

ChrisJensen — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 23:16:49 GMT

Sebastien,

Will your transfer tool work with two different versions of server? I would like to move services on 10.1 to a new 10.3.1 server.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

SebastienPetit — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:33:57 GMT

Yes.

We did several test (not these exact versions) and it was working

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:51:20 GMT

Edit #2: I got it to work. See my summary information at the end.

Hi Sebastien,

This thread is about 8 months old now, but thought I would see if you monitor it at all. I downloaded the ServiceTransferTool from github and was trying to see if I could go from an AGS 10.2.2 machine to AGS 10.4.1....but have tried running both in Desktop 10.4.1 (on server) and my local Desktop 10.3.1. I had to comment out the import of pymssql and the writeinDatabase function, but that looked like it was something more internal to eea, so I don't think that matters.

However, I am getting an error

My arcgisserver service directories are on the D drive, so it seems to be getting that info, but it should probably b "d:\\" ...not error is not showing the ":". I've been trying to work backwards to see where this is being pulled from, but haven't found it yet. Although I have a utility that looks at the config.json file for this info, so maybe this is doing the same (and I just haven't found that yet).

The attributes I am entering:

my input includes:

<sourceServer> 6080 <admin> <adminpass> MapServer <checked services, public ones> <targetServer> 6080 <admin> <adminpass> <blank> \\<targetServer>\<shareToD>\<newfoldername1> OverwriteIsChecked \\<targetServer>\<shareToD>\<newfoldername2>

for the systemTemp and backupTemp I am putting in "\\<targetserver>\<shareToD>\<foldername>" ..I was putting this as the target server.....it is support to be the source?

Questions:

where would it have pulled that my files are on the "D" drive (it is not included in any of the input attributes), is it pulling it from the arcgis settings, or is it just assuming "D" (hardcoded somewhere I haven't found yet??)?
Is is ok that I do not use the pymssql module?
What folders should I copy to the new server before running....are there any requirements? I did copy over the \arcgisserver\directories\arcgisssystem\arcgisinput folder

....I notice that my mxd is not in the root of the service, but in a subfolder \extracted\v101 ..maybe that is a remanent from the 10.1->10.2.x migration ??

For what it is doing, I do not think the error has anything to do with 10.4.x

If you have any insight I would appreciate it. It looks like a useful tool if I can get it to work for our site.

Thanks for any help.

*******************************

Edit: getting closer. I had to change a few lines to have it take my server name in the path to the services .mxd location...still need to work on that to make it more automatic, but it does find the mxd now. If running on a 10.3.1 again the target 10.4.1, it would crash I'm assuming because it doesn't like the versions being different. So running in Desktop 10.4.1 on the target server...with about 5 patches, including the publishing patch.....I can get to Step 4 but the service will not publish (although it thinks it was successful, per a message. I need to go investigate this next.

This is the new error I am getting:

SUMMARY (Resolved)

Wanted to give a summary of what I did to get this to work. I tested on a 10.4.1 AGS server, pulling from a 10.2.1 AGS server.

Downloaded the software from GitHub - eea/discomap.ServiceTransferTool: Transfer tool unzipped to known folder
Tested and ran in ArcCatalog 10.4.1 which was compatible with my target AGS version.
Made sure my data sources were copies over....not sure if this was needed or if the tool would do it, but thought it better to just do it.
Modified using TransferServices.py to fit my needs:
1. Commented out line #9 import pymssql and the function writeInDatabase approximately lines 532-547
2. traced variable "finalServiceName" backwards to "serviceName" and "inputFolderPath" and eventually back to "pathInitial" which was the actual start of my "can't find the mxd" issue (about line 589). I add a few more formatiing lines (and print statements) to get the mxd to read from the source server's d$ drive in the <service>\extracted\v101 folder. This is how all our services on the 10.2.1 machine are set up. Whether this is a standard path or because we've updated thru several versions, I do not know.
Initially I thought I wanted to copy the \arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput over from the 10.2.1 machine. But this was not needed and might have been causing an issue. I reset (that is, restored my backup of this folder) and then restarted the ArcGIS Server (I hadn't done that thru the previous steps).

After all that, my 4 "public" test services (have not tested secure services yet) worked.

Only other issue, which is an internal things, as I was getting ssl certificate errors/warnings. I just closed the popup and it continued. This is a self-signed cert, with "10dot" addresses...that is, something that network services has for our internal servers. I've given up on trying to have them get rid of the error, since things work for my test environment (just annoying).

Hope this helps someone down the line. My procedures my not work specifically but may help with debugging. Have fun.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

IreneEgbulefu1 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:20:40 GMT

Rebecca Strauch‌, Emily Keefer-Cowles‌

Hello Rebecca, I am happy to note that you actually got this tool to work at your end. I am currently trying to use the tool to copy some bunch of map services from my existing ArcGIS Server 10.4 to a new ArcGIS Server 10.4 but I keep getting this error

Directory not copied. Error: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: u'E\\arcgisserver\\directories\\arcgissystem\\arcgisinput\\NaturalResources\\MS4_Map_SupportingLayers_Public_Viewer_Natural_Resources.MapServer\\*.*'
Service MXD not found.

I don't understand why it is displaying the 'drive E' without the colon. Is this right?.

These are the paths I specified for the system sysTemp field

E:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\sysTemp

for the backupTemp

E:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\backup

Both 'sysTemp' and 'backup' folders were created in my new ArcGIS 10.4 Server which is the destination server. I didn't fill anything in the 'Destination_Folder' field

I have tried to follow all the steps you stipulated above unfortunately I'm still not able to get it to run successfully. Please can you explain more details of what exactly you did to get the tool to work for you.

I have over 280 map services I need to copy and would really be happy if this tool could work for me. That would make life much easier for me.

thanks

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:28:09 GMT

Hi Irene,

I was getting the same error, and I used arcpy.AddMessage or print statements to print out the variables and the approximate line number in my code (to I could find it easily). For my use, I used the V101 folder to grab my .mxd. I've included a snip of the code with my comments. I did several other changes after I resolved this, like read my admin credentials from an ini file vs hardcoding them, so my record numbers in my comments might be off.

...oops, need to open this in another browser tab to post my code...
Look at about line 76 below to see my comments

#...
      else:
        arcpy.AddMessage("\n  ** Service '" + str(service) + "' information read successfully. Now transfering... (5 steps)")

        # Deserialize response into Python object
        propInitialService = json.loads(data)
        user = getpass.getuser()

        pathInitial = propInitialService["properties"]["filePath"]
        #arcpy.AddMessage("pathInitial line 653: {0}".format(pathInitial))
        pathInitial = pathInitial.replace(':', '$', 1)    # this is stripping the ":" from d:\  with $
        #arcpy.AddMessage("pathInitial line 655: {0}".format(pathInitial))
        pathInitial = os.path.join("\\\\{0}".format(fromServerName), pathInitial)    # add source server name to path
        #arcpy.AddMessage("pathInitial line 657: {0}".format(pathInitial))                    
        msdPath = pathInitial.replace('X', os.path.join(r'\\' + fromServerName, 'x'), 1)
        #arcpy.AddMessage("msdPath line 659: {0}".format(msdPath))

        if newFolder != "" : folderName = newFolder
        else: folderName = os.path.split(service)[0]

        serviceName = os.path.split(service)[1]
        serviceName2 = serviceName
        pos3 = serviceName2.find(".MapServer")
        simpleServiceName = serviceName2[:pos3]
        #arcpy.AddMessage("simpleServiceName line 668: {0}".format(simpleServiceName))


        if  folderName != 'root' or folderName != '':                           
          finalServiceName = folderName + "//" + simpleServiceName + ".MapServer"
          temp_workspace = string.replace(workspace, ':', '', 1)
          temp_workspace = string.replace(temp_workspace, 'X', os.path.join(r'\\' + socket.gethostname(), 'x'), 1)
          sources = os.path.join(temp_workspace, os.path.join(folderName, simpleServiceName + ".MapServer"))
        else:
          finalServiceName = serviceName
          temp_workspace = string.replace(workspace, ':', '', 1)
          sources = os.path.join(string.replace(temp_workspace, 'X', os.path.join(r'\\' + socket.gethostname(), 'x'), 1), serviceName)

        #Check if the service exists
        #arcpy.AddMessage("finalServiceName line 672: {0}".format(finalServiceName))
        serviceExists = False
        serviceExistsOld = False
        serviceExists = isServicePresent(toServerName, str(toServerPort), targetServerToken, simpleServiceName, folderName, "")

        pos = msdPath.find(serviceName) + len(serviceName) 
        #arcpy.AddMessage("pos line 687: {0}".format(pos))

        inputFolderPath = msdPath[:pos]
        #arcpy.AddMessage("inputFolderPath line 691: {0}".format(inputFolderPath))
        inputFolderPath = os.path.join(inputFolderPath, "extracted", "v101")
        #arcpy.AddMessage("inputFolderPath line 693: {0}".format(inputFolderPath))


        #If service exists and must be overwritten                
        if serviceExists == True and overwrite == 'true':
          #Backup old service
          serviceURLforbackup = "/arcgis/admin/services/" + folderName + "/" + serviceName
          #arcpy.AddMessage("\nserviceURLforbackup line 700: {0}".format(serviceURLforbackup))

          # This request only needs the token and the response formatting parameter
          tokenforbackup = targetServerToken # gentoken(toServerName, toServerPort, toAdminUser, toAdminPass)
          paramsforbackup = urllib.urlencode({'token': tokenforbackup, 'f': 'json'})
          responseforbackup, dataforbackup = postToServer(toServerName, str(toServerPort), serviceURLforbackup, paramsforbackup)
          #arcpy.AddMessage("\nresponseforbackup line 706: {0}".format(responseforbackup))
          #arcpy.AddMessage("\ndataforbackup line 707: {0}".format(dataforbackup))

          if (responseforbackup.status == 200) and assertJsonSuccess(dataforbackup):

            propInitialServiceforbackup = json.loads(dataforbackup)
            pathInitialforbackup = propInitialServiceforbackup["properties"]["filePath"]
            pathInitialforbackup = pathInitialforbackup.replace(':', '', 1)
            msdPathforbackup = pathInitialforbackup.replace('X', os.path.join(r'\\' + toServerName, 'x'), 1)
            #arcpy.AddMessage("\n msdPathforbackup line 715: {0}".format(msdPathforbackup))

            posforbackup = msdPathforbackup.find(serviceName) + len(serviceName) 

            # doesn't handle the  d$ or share correctly
            # inputFolderPathforbackup = msdPathforbackup[:posforbackup]  
            # arcpy.AddMessage("\ninputFolderPathforbackup line 719: {0}".format(inputFolderPathforbackup))
            # so using inputFolderPath which I modified above
            #
            copyFrom =  inputFolderPath    #inputFolderPathforbackup   
            #arcpy.AddMessage("\ncopyFrom line 722: {0}".format(copyFrom))
            #
            copyTo = os.path.join(workFolder, folderName, serviceName)                    
            #arcpy.AddMessage("copyTo line 724: {0}".format(copyTo))

            continuePublish1 = copy(copyFrom, copyTo)                        
            continuePublish2 = createZipFile(copyFrom, workFolder + "\\" + folderName + "\\" + serviceName + ".zip")

            if continuePublish1 == True and continuePublish2 == True:
              arcpy.AddMessage("     Step 0: Old service backup done succesfully.")
            else:
              arcpy.AddMessage("     Step 0: Error when backing up old service .")                                        

          serviceExistsOld = serviceExists
          serviceExists = False
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Remember, the line numbers in the AddMessage statements won't match yours, but I suggest adding a few like this if you still need to trace things back. I left them in my code although, once fixed, I commented them out.

Hope this helps.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

IreneEgbulefu1 — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:22:06 GMT

Thank you so much Rebecca, I did some modifications following the steps you described above, when I ran the script, it is able to copy over some of the map services and not able to copy some. It reported the error below which i believe could be specific to the individual map service. For these specific map services it is not able to analyze the service definition drafts and I am currently looking into this issue. Did you get similar error in yours?

Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis

Thank you very much

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:29:30 GMT

Irene Egbulefu I edited your last response so it didn't include my previous response, quoted, twice. But it doesn't look like your error message got pasted. you may want to try again. oh, never mind...the green was the error message.

I do not have anywhere the number of services you have to move over, but it won't surprise me if all mine do not come over cleanly either. Keep in mind that I made sure my data was copied over to the new server, if needed, and made sure all my data links were also set up exactly the same, that is,same names. My guess is that is there is anything that is "broken" in the source service, it will have issues copying over.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

JonathanQuinn — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:28:12 GMT

It looks like it's writing the errors to a text file:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. ")                             

    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

You can add what's stored in the content variable to the AddWarning message:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    #Include the results of the analysis within the message
    messageContent = "Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    #Add the message to the tool
    arcpy.AddWarning(messageContent)                             
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"    
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This way, it prints the message but also writes to the file created by the createTxtFile function, (whatever the "workspace" variable is defined to, which appears to be the sysTemp folder path).

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:45:01 GMT

Good point. I had forgotten about the log files. I do see one of my last tests I did have some failures, but more successes, listed in my logs. Some of them had that error. For me, I'll be able to review/analyze and fix and/or recreate them.

Irene....how many of the 280 gave you errors?

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

IreneEgbulefu1 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 13:05:36 GMT

So far I tried to copy about 59 services at a time but it is only able to transfer 24 successfully while complaining that the remaining 23 services could not be transferred because errors were found during analysis.

When I analyzed some of the individual services it was having issues with, I noticed that there were some warning errors (not critical errors) like projection issues and so on. These are just warnings and not error.

I wonder why it wouldn't ignore those and go ahead and publish the maps just like ArcMap would do.

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

IreneEgbulefu1 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:28:15 GMT

Jonathan Quinn wrote:

Jonathan Quinn wrote:

It looks like it's writing the errors to a text file:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. ")                             

    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

You can add what's stored in the content variable to the AddWarning message:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    #Include the results of the analysis within the message
    messageContent = "Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    #Add the message to the tool
    arcpy.AddWarning(messageContent)                             
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"    
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This way, it prints the message but also writes to the file created by the createTxtFile function, (whatever the "workspace" variable is defined to, which appears to be the sysTemp folder path).

It looks like it's writing the errors to a text file:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. ")                             

    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

You can add what's stored in the content variable to the AddWarning message:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    #Include the results of the analysis within the message
    messageContent = "Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    #Add the message to the tool
    arcpy.AddWarning(messageContent)                             
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"    
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This way, it prints the message but also writes to the file created by the createTxtFile function, (whatever the "workspace" variable is defined to, which appears to be the sysTemp folder path).

Jonathan Quinn wrote:

It looks like it's writing the errors to a text file:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. ")                             

    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

You can add what's stored in the content variable to the AddWarning message:

...
# if the sddraft analysis contained errors
else:
  #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
  if analyseDraft['errors'] == "NO":
                                    
    arcpy.AddWarning("     Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.")
                                    
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed. \n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)
                                    
    #writeInDatabase(fromServerName, toServerName, serviceType, finalServiceName, service, user, sources, 'Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed.')

  else:
    #Include the results of the analysis within the message
    messageContent = "Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"
    #Add the message to the tool
    arcpy.AddWarning(messageContent)                             
    content = "\n " + formatDate() + "\n Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis. \n " + str(analyseDraft['errors']) + "\n   - " + finalServiceName + "\n"    
    serviceFailureNumber = serviceFailureNumber + 1
    writeTxtFile(False, content, serviceFailureNumber, content1, workspace)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

This way, it prints the message but also writes to the file created by the createTxtFile function, (whatever the "workspace" variable is defined to, which appears to be the sysTemp folder path).

Hi Jonathan,

I have tried to include your suggestion above to my script but its not making any difference to the output. I'm just wondering how I can instruct the script to ignore

the non-critical errors in the Analysis stage and proceed to publish the service.

Some of the errors include discrepancy in the map projection, layer draws at all scale etc.

Is there a way to tell the script to bypass some of these non critical errors and publish the service

--inputFolderPath line 691: \\Hamiltonpool\E$\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\NaturalResources\MS4_Viewer_RegBoundaries.MapServer

inputFolderPath line 693: \\Hamiltonpool\E$\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\NaturalResources\MS4_Viewer_RegBoundaries.MapServer\extracted\v101

Step 1: Creating Service Definition Draft (.sddraft)

Step 2: Analyzing Service Definition Draft.

The following information was returned during analysis of the MXD:

MESSAGES:

Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

JonathanQuinn — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 08:28:17 GMT

Since it's going into the else block, (line 777 in the original script on github), what I would do is print the results of the analysis:

Ex.

arcpy.AddMessage(analyseDraft)‍‍

This is a simple way to see why it's reaching that else block. It looks like the analyseServiceDraft is already going through the messages within the analysis starting on lines 1178, so from your output, it doesn't seem like there are any error messages.

def analyseServiceDraft(draftXml, service):
    analysis = {}
    try:    
        # Analyze the service definition draft
        analysis = arcpy.mapping.AnalyzeForSD(draftXml)

        # Print errors, warnings, and messages returned from the analysis
        count = 0 
        mess = "     The following information was returned during analysis of the MXD: "
        for key in ('messages', 'warnings', 'errors'):
            mess = mess + "\n      " + key.upper() + ":"
            vars = analysis[key]
            mess2 = ""
            for ((message, code), layerlist) in vars.iteritems():
                mess2 = mess2 + "\n      - " + message + " (CODE %i)" % code
                mess2 = mess2 + " applies to:"
                
                for layer in layerlist:
                    count = count + 1
                    mess2 = mess2 + "\n            " + str(count) + " : "+ layer.name

            mess = mess + mess2
            if analysis['errors'] != {}:
                analysis['errors'] = mess
                arcpy.AddMessage(mess)
                
            return analysis
        
    # if the sddraft analysis fails
    except:
        #Service Definition Draft could not be analyzed
        analysis['errors'] = "NO"
        return analysis‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: How copy map service from one ArcGIS server to another ArcGIS server

IreneEgbulefu1 — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:36:57 GMT

inputFolderPath line

691: \\Hamipool\E$\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\Public\Bike_Safety_Committee_Project.MapServer

inputFolderPath line

693:Hamipool\E$\arcgisserver\directories\arcgissystem\arcgisinput\Public\Bike_Safety_Committee_Project.MapServer\extracted\v101

Step 1: Creating Service Definition Draft (.sddraft)

Step 2: Analyzing Service Definition Draft.

The following information was returned during analysis of the MXD:

MESSAGES:

- Layer draws at all scale ranges (CODE 30003) applies to: Is this supposed to be a critical problem

1 : Commissioner Precincts

2 : Public Schools

3 : Bike Safety Committee Recommendations 2013

4 : Existing Bike Routes

5 : CoA's OCG Trail (Built)

6 : Travis County Park Trails

7 : County Maintained Roads

8 : County Rds by Treatment Types

9 : County Rds by Condition

10 : Corridors_TNRs

11 : CAMPO 2035 Plan

12 : Travis_County_Parks

13 : LCRA_Parks_All

14 : COA_Parks_All

15 : Other_Juris_Parkland_All

16 : State_Parks_All

17 : City Limits

18 : ETJs

19 : County_Boundary_Line

Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis.

In some cases it doesn’t even return any message

Step 1: Creating Service Definition Draft (.sddraft)

Step 2: Analyzing Service Definition Draft.

The following information was returned during analysis of the MXD:

MESSAGES:

Service could not be published because errors were found during analysis.