topic Running Scheduled Tasks from an ArcServer box in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/running-scheduled-tasks-from-an-arcserver-box/m-p/655241#M51008 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />Hello,</P><P></P><P>We have an SDE database on a SQL machine in our MS Server-stack.&nbsp; We would like to run some python/arcpy scripts from this machine as scheduled tasks.&nbsp; We use OS-authentication, and the tasks would be run under a 'Service Account' login.&nbsp; Do we need ArcGIS Desktop installed on that machine in order to call arcpy commands within a script?</P><P></P><P>Some insight:&nbsp; On this machine there is a Python27 folder at the root level, which has one subfolder:&nbsp; ArcGISx6410.2</P><P></P><P>Thanks,&nbsp; Adam</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:35:26 GMT AdamCrateau1 2014-12-26T20:35:26Z Running Scheduled Tasks from an ArcServer box https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/running-scheduled-tasks-from-an-arcserver-box/m-p/655241#M51008 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />Hello,</P><P></P><P>We have an SDE database on a SQL machine in our MS Server-stack.&nbsp; We would like to run some python/arcpy scripts from this machine as scheduled tasks.&nbsp; We use OS-authentication, and the tasks would be run under a 'Service Account' login.&nbsp; Do we need ArcGIS Desktop installed on that machine in order to call arcpy commands within a script?</P><P></P><P>Some insight:&nbsp; On this machine there is a Python27 folder at the root level, which has one subfolder:&nbsp; ArcGISx6410.2</P><P></P><P>Thanks,&nbsp; Adam</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:35:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/running-scheduled-tasks-from-an-arcserver-box/m-p/655241#M51008 AdamCrateau1 2014-12-26T20:35:26Z Re: Running Scheduled Tasks from an ArcServer box https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/running-scheduled-tasks-from-an-arcserver-box/m-p/655242#M51009 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would recommend putting desktop on the DB server. It will be a lot easier to run your scripts than trying to call a python path from another location on the network. All of the python libraries needed on your server will be there when you install desktop. I have done this for years with great success automating tasks this way.&nbsp; You can also leverage other python libs as well to interact with your non-spatial databases as well. </P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:43:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/running-scheduled-tasks-from-an-arcserver-box/m-p/655242#M51009 NickHetrick 2014-12-26T20:43:54Z