idea Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool in ArcGIS Pro Ideas

Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

KirkHayer — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:47:22 GMT

From time-to-time, one needs to re-create Replication. I use ModelBuild when creating Replications to document what is being replicated, etc. Then when it comes to needing to re-create a Replica, I have a model (or script, if exported to Python) to readly run... the only problem is that at 10.1, there are not tools (ArcToolbox or Arcpy) that allow one to "unregister" the exiting Replicas in the Source and Target GDBs.

Please consider creating tools to "Unregister" Replicas so one can automate the process of re-creating Replicas and not have to "Unregister" then manually!

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

SteveSalas — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:13:14 GMT

Would also be helpful in my development database where the testing team has created about 40 replicas... and I am unregistering them all one at a time through the version manager... click... click... .... .... click

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

AllanBenvin — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 16:08:58 GMT

We have several hundred layers being replicated. Currently I am doing the creation of the replicas using ArcObjects, I would like to migrate this to Python but we also need the ability to unregister replicas. Having the ability to create a replica but not delete it in ArcPy is useless. If all the tools are not available then ArcObjects is still the only viable alternative.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

KenCarrier — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:19:27 GMT

A friend of mine just called and was asking about this and in searching I found this idea. So add me and my friend to the list. This would be helpful in automation. Hopefully they are working on this and it will be in the next version.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

TuridBrox — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 09:24:19 GMT

This would be useful for us, too. I'd like to recreate our replicated databases once in a while to get a full compress (without replica versions) in the SDE-database we replicate from. The only thing stopping us from modelling the whole process is that we can't unregister replicas with Python or preferably Model builder. We replicate to several databases and have many replica rules.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

RobertO_Donnell — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 14:42:42 GMT

Yes!!

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

DrewDowling — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:49:42 GMT

This is a bad omission from the distributed database toolset.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

DrewDowling — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:49:30 GMT

It looks like you can unregister replicas using the REST api if you have a geodata service pointing towards the GDB. Link

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

DanielWebb2 — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:52:57 GMT

Having such a tool in ArcToolbox and Arcpy would be very beneficial.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

JackHorton — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 22:57:19 GMT

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/155303/is-there-an-arcpy-tool-to-delete-unregister-a-replica-geodatabase

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

JulieMikolajczyk3 — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:58:28 GMT

This is a good thing to have, but fyi - it's available in the ArcGIS API for Python: arcgis.features.managers module — arcgis 1.4.0 documentation. I haven't tried it, but I'm about to. I update a particular dataset four times a day and I've not been able to enable it for offline use because of this limitation.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

stevecater1 — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:22:58 GMT

The functionality to delete multiple replicas needs to be implemented asap in the database tool set. In cases where you have 100 or more replicas having to manually delete them one by one is extremely tedious.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

pfoppe — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:26:52 GMT

Vote Up! We are having challenges managing this as well and are looking for automation options. Not having access in arcpy is troublesome...

It is further challenging just making an API call to the REST endpoint as the account that makes that call has to be the user that owns the replica OR a full site-wide ArcGIS Server administrator - Unregister Replica (Feature Service)—ArcGIS REST API: Services Directory | ArcGIS for Developers (I tested this today at least at v10.4.1)

I have not tested it, but I assume the Python API for ArcGIS will also execute the same REST API call and subjected to the same limitation; Either has to be the user that owns the replica OR a full ArcGIS Server admin - arcgis.features.managers module — arcgis 1.5.0 documentation

I do agree with the behavior of the REST API call as any user should not be able to administer other users replicas. However, I do not want to setup our scheduled task/windows service (that will monitor and correct this situation) with an account that is a full on ArcGIS Server administrator. This is a hard situation correcting the situation through the REST API call...

If I had an arcpy command, I could use the back end .sde connection file to a built in SQL "editing" account that ultimately owns the database replica (the editing account in our situation is the account we used to publish the feature service with sync capability). This would support the principal of least privileges and ensure I dont have to be a full administrator to correct this situation (just the true owner of the replica which is the database identity).

So please provide an arcpy (or Python API call) that we can use to administer the replicas in an automated fashion. Thanks for the consideration.

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool

DougBrowning — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:56:21 GMT

You can use a * and unregister all of them at once.

My question is getting a list of info about them. arcpy.da.ListReplicas only takes sde and not a URL which is a bummer.

All I can see is the REST interface that was designed in 1995. My guess is I have to go through REST in a script then parse the results. That is hard or us since we have a SSL scanner the code gets funky.

A lot of issues are caused by the bug in Field Maps - if you remove a offline area while offline, it does not unregister the replica ever.

thanks a lot

Re: Unregister Replication via Arcpy and ArcToolbox Tool - Status changed to: Already Offered

SSWoodward — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 19:26:33 GMT

Thanks for the Idea and comments.

ArcGIS Pro now offers an Unregister Replica GP tool. I've linked to the documentation below.

Link - Unregister Replica GP Tool

Another user linked to documentation for the ArcGIS API for python, but I noticed the link was dead so I've included a link to the page on the Sync Manager. This may allow you to more easily list and manage your replicas.

Link - ArcGIS API for Python - Sync Manager