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ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

AdolfŠikola — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 22:51:28 GMT

I believe that ArcGIS Pro should also include features for managing map services such as:

stopping map service
starting map service
restart map service
delete map service

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

KoryKramer — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:00:41 GMT

This would be part of a group of "service management" ideas for ArcGIS Pro, including

ArcPro 2.4.1: “Delete” tool when right clicking a service is not available, and

“Service Properties” and “manage cache” options are not available when right-clicking the service in ArcPro, and

https://community.esri.com/ideas/18179

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

RandyKreuziger1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:46:51 GMT

I talked to ESRI about these pre quarantine and asked for them to mark this down as an enhancement request. They said I needed a work case where using the ArcGIS Server Administrator wouldn't work. In the end I don't think I was successful in getting the enhancement through

Start/stop/restart Services from ArcGIS Pro

tigerwoulds — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 14:49:01 GMT

In ArcGIS Desktop, we could connect to a GIS Server and Start/Stop/Restart services. I would like this functionality to exist in ArcGIS Pro as well. We have many users who are not quite ready for access to ArcGIS Server Manager but are still responsible for updating and maintaining services. Some examples:

In order to update services coming from SDE, they need to stop the service, then make edits to the data
If something isn't working right, they can start troubleshooting by restarting the service

We would prefer that these users do not have access to change service configurations outside of these functions, like editing # of instances and capabilities through Server Manager. Server Manager also shows some GIS Server settings that we definitely do want accessible by the everyday GIS user.

Re: Start/stop/restart Services from ArcGIS Pro

RandyKreuziger1 — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 22:10:39 GMT

I tried opening an enhancement request with ESRI about a year ago for those very same reasons, but they told me the functionality is there in Server Manager so enhancement request rejected 😐 I mentioned it's available in ArcCatalog to which they said Pro is not a replacement for ArcCatalog 🤔

Re: Start/stop/restart Services from ArcGIS Pro

tigerwoulds — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:24:37 GMT

@RandyKreuziger1 Bummer! I may try again.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

Olivier_MOUGEL — Wed, 19 May 2021 07:27:43 GMT

I agree with this idea. Switching to arcgis enterprise web interface is a lack of time.

For example, in order to update for layer's properties, we must stop map services. Why not making possible to do so in ArcGIS Pro ?

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

SavageTrimble — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:25:16 GMT

ArcGIS 10.9 and higher, no more ArcMap, ArcCatalog

Argument: You can do this in ArcGIS server manager.

Rebuttal: ArcMap and ArcCatalog could do it even with ArcGIS server manager. Is ArcGIS Pro incapable of such a task? One UI for the ArcGIS Professional is the mantra. For GIS admins, seems like we are missing something.

Please consider this enhancement esri because when you are managing multiple environments, having multiple browsers or tabs open while performing updates to schemas in ArcGIS Pro is somewhat inefficient and frankly frustrating. ArcGIS Pro 3.0?

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

JoeGuziStarkCountyOH — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 18:55:36 GMT

I agree with @SavageTrimble .... This needs to be in pro...

I needed to stop 13 services... in catalog I can highlight them all, right-click and stop...

do you know how long that would take through server manager.... the answer is forever..... because you have to stop them one at a time through server manager....

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

RandyKreuziger1 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 19:06:06 GMT

Joe, I think we need more users submitting an office enhancement request directly to ESRI. If you have ESRI maintenance you can have one of your people put in the request and I would hope @LukeSavage has done the same.

ESRI looks at the numbers so that's how we can try to influence there decisions. When I put in the request their logic is that the AGS Server Manager web interface already does this and Pro is not meant to replace ArcMap. Everything mentioned above if very true, it takes forever!

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

MarkSmith — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:50:54 GMT

I’m new to using Pro but I have to say I’m absolutely astounded that this functionality is missing from Pro, I thought Pro was meant to be better than ArcGIS Desktop but the first thing I try and use is missing from it! Administering services is one of the key things we use ArcCatalog for - all the time, it provides a central interface to get to all the options to manage our ArcGIS Server services. ArcGIS Server Manager with its web front end is really clunky and slow by comparison. Whilst I’m aware changing a setting such as enabling WMS would restart a service using ArcCatalog, the need in Pro to open the original map document and re-publish just to make a setting change is a huge backwards step – additionally I may not have access to the original map document to do this – not a problem at the moment using ArcCatalog.

ArcCatalog gives me everything I need to get to all the service settings and manage caches etc, ESRI please add this to Pro, as it stands you've made our jobs harder with Pro, it should be simpler with an improved product.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

tigerwoulds — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:31:22 GMT

I built a python toolbox for ArcGIS Pro that will start or stop all services in a folder on the GIS Server. Requires a federated ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.

The GIS Server and GIS Server Folder parameters dynamically provide dropdowns based on the active Portal you are signed into, in ArcGIS Pro. DM if you're interested, I can pass it along.

FYI - working on an update for this that will allow you to select individual services in a Folder, rather than running the whole operation on every service in a selected folder. It will look something like this:

I also have similar tools in the works that will handle deletion and restarting services as well. Cheers.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

JoeGuziStarkCountyOH — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 18:09:49 GMT

@tigerwoulds That is awesome thank you for sharing.... In my opinion, the point is we should not have to create python scripts or do anything customizing in order to perform basic administrative task we have been able to do for years using ArcMap...

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

SavageTrimble — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:18:29 GMT

@JoeGuziStarkCountyOH Agreed. This is a huge item for administrative tasks.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

SavageTrimble — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:18:59 GMT

@tigerwoulds That would be awesome for you to share. Looking forward to the update.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

SusanCarlson — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:06:28 GMT

I agree with this 100%. Server Manager is no way equivalent to using ArcCatalog for stopping/starting/deleting services. Especially when you're working with a dozen or more servers with services in multiple folders. In Catalog I can open all my server connections and see all my service folders in one spot. It takes a very long time to perform the same tasks in Manager, especially when you have to login to each one, and then cycle through pages and pages of services. As a web administrator I spend a lot of time in ArcCatalog, and now that I'm migrating our 200+ services to Pro it's very disheartening to see the decline in functionality.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

MeganEngel — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:15:37 GMT

@tigerwoulds This looks like a great tool. I would love to share your script with folks at my organization. We are often starting and stopping services, and have hundreds of them. This would be great to use in lieu of Server Manger.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

MatthewStull1 — Thu, 26 May 2022 22:19:56 GMT

I'll also chime in that not having this capability in Pro is BAD! Please reconsider.

Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

KoryKramer — Thu, 26 May 2022 23:37:07 GMT

Thank you for the comment @MatthewStull1 I took a look and it doesn't appear that you added your kudos to the idea. While comments are important, kudos (the number of votes) that an idea receives is one of the primary pieces of data that we use to determine traction and trends as we monitor idea activity over time.

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Re: ArcGIS Pro functions for map services

bfindlay — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:27:30 GMT

Our organization is still in the transition phase towards full adoption of ArcGIS Pro as a replacement of ArcMap/ArcCatalog. Part of that transition mean we must update our procedure docs for administration tasks using ArcGIS Pro, but I just realized the functionality to manage map services is completely missing. At first I thought maybe I needed to find what I needed in a contextual tab as opposed to a right click context menu, but when I couldn't find it an internet search led me here, to my dismay and disappointment.

In my opinion this is ABSOLUTELY a necessary improvement needed for ArcGIS Pro. This is one of those major road blocks that will force people back to using ArcGIS Catalog. If Esri really wants people to transition to ArcGIS Pro they ABSOLUTELY NEED to make sure the software does what ArcCatalog can already do, not just add new bells and whistles that only 1% of user will ever touch.

I am tasked with leading the transition to ArcGIS Pro at my organization and shortcomings in the software like this only make my job more difficult and the full adoption slower. I don't think that using ArcGIS Server Manager is a viable work around as this would take addition time as others have noted and we don't want everyone who might need to restart or stop/stop a map service using this management tool.

Voting up all three of these ideas and inviting my coworkers/collogues to do the same.