How to set up a geocoding service on an onsite ArcGIS setup

AlbertPaulraj — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:46:47 GMT

Hi, This is Albert Paulraj. I would like some help on setting up a geocoding service on an on premise ArcGIS set up.

Any suggestions welcome. Thank you!

The end goal is to integrate ESRI plugin for Cognos with ARCGIS on premise platform.

I have installed ArcGIS Server/Portal plus federated and set up a hosting server (ArcGIS Data Store). I have also installed ESRI plugin for Cognos. The Cognos plugin, ARCGIS Server plus portal all communicate to each other with no issues.

The situation is when I try to upload a file that has zip codes to the portal, I get a message 'Your portal is not configured to find locations from address stored in files.' Googling gave the below link, which i am still reading but not able to make a conclusion on how to set up a geocoding service:

Configure the portal to geocode addresses—Portal for ArcGIS (10.4.1) | ArcGIS for Server

Below is a snippet from the link above:

Geocoding

You can add the following types of geocoding services to the portal:

A geocoding service from a federated or hosting server.
A geocoding service that requires credentials and is from a server that is not federated with your portal.
A geocoding service that does not require credentials and is from a server that is not federated with your portal.
The World Geocoding Service provided by Esri. This will use the credentials from an ArcGIS Online account that has credits associated with it.

The above link talks about 4 option to configure a geocoding service:

Option 4: Use World Geocoder from ESRI is not an option as our company security policy restricts any outside traffic.All other options except option 1 (from a federated or a hosting server) is the viable option.

Per the link (from a federated or hosting server.) I navigate to ArcGIS Server manager I see the following services: Geometry, printing tools, Search, search indexer. I am expecting to see Geocoder service (I could be wrong). I am not seeing the Geocoder service. Question is do i need to install any other component for example, ArcGIS Desktop or with the existing set up (Server/Portal/Data Store) I can turn on some feature that will list Geocoder service on my Server Manager, using which when I upload a file on my portal with zip codes the geocoder service will translate the zip codes and plot it on map?

Thank you, Albert

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