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Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

MDavis — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:38:11 GMT

Is it possible to use Python to stop the ArcGIS Service so you could successfully delete a FGDB with running map services completely and copy a new one in it's place with same name. See the attached image for what I am referring.

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

MichaelVolz — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:33:42 GMT

How about a truncate and append of feature classes in the FGDB so the services would not need to be stopped?

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

jcarlson — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 00:19:31 GMT

You can do it through the ArcGIS Python API. Check out the arcgis.gis.server.Service section of the docs, where you'll see start and stop are both methods. So you could have a script stop the service, do whatever, then start it back up.

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

MDavis — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:41:01 GMT

That is what we are doing now. This is a dual Server setup for load balancing and the objectIDs do not match after the truncate and append script runs on each Server . This was not an issue until we started using the feature service in an AGOL application. The AGOL app must cache the ObjectID and if you identify another feature after an initial identify the different ObjectIDs cause strange behavior.

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

MDavis — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 19:42:27 GMT

Thank you I will check this out and let you know if this solves the problem. I appreciate the response.

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

mody_buchbinder — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 06:16:25 GMT

This has nothing to do with esri libraries.

You can do it with standard python libraries.

For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46595845/python-command-to-stop-and-start-windows-services

I have a script that takes the machine out of load balancing, stop the service, replace directories (FGDB is just a directory) and then return everything. The script must run on the machine itself in order to take it out the load balancing.

Sorry I cannot share it but it is very simple.

Have fun

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

MDavis — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 13:28:08 GMT

Thank you I think this is what I am after. I appreciate you taking the time to answer.

Re: Can you use Python to stop ArcGIS Enterprise Service

__JackCharde__ — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:55:21 GMT

Just came here to look for answers to the question of stopping and starting single services with python, and I went to the documentation section you linked but the service section is just completely blank.

Instead I tried using the Server class (arcgis.gis.server module), which has a .services() property, according to the documentation. However, when debugging in VS Code, I see that that method returns a traceback error, saying it has no property "services".

- Jack C.