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Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:17:45 GMT

Hi.

I'm wanting to publish a python script as a geoprocessing service (a secured service). Is there any way for arcpy to get the name of the arcgis server user who calls the gp task?

e.g. I log in and run the GP tool from the rest url, the script grabs my login name and the current datetime and adds it to a log table. We then end up with a log table of all users and times the script was run.

Cheers,

-Paul

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

JonathanQuinn — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:24:42 GMT

Sounds like you want something like editor tracking, but for a GP service. I don't think that there's anything within the framework to support that. My only thought is to add a parameter so the user can select their username. Since you'll have a defined list of users within your ArcGIS Server security, you could create a dropdown list of the user names, but you're relying on the user to select the correct one. You can probably do this with an SOI.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:05:53 GMT

Thanks for the reply Jonathan.

I haven't been able to find anything yet within the framework. Seems a little strange that the script is unaware of who is running it.

Relying on the user to input who they are in probably not a realistic option unfortunately.

Unless anyone else has any thoughts then I guess the only option is an SOI as you suggest.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

ChrisPedrezuela — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:27:53 GMT

I think when you switch the default log messages level settings from "Warning" to "Verbose", you can capture detailed instance of the GP or even map service being consumed by a user. Just a thought.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:33:29 GMT

You mean it is possible to decipher from the verbose log files who the user is? That is only really useful for debugging. I was wanting the GP service script itself to save a log of the users who ran it.

Even if running in verbose mode could somehow allow the script to detect the user, obviously you couldn't run the GP service permanently in verbose mode...

Thanks for the comment though on an old post! 🙂

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

ChrisPedrezuela — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:43:41 GMT

all good. just happened to see your post since I am researching on how ArcGIS server picks up usernames. from your original post you did mention it will be a secured service so im guessing you will have a portal built-in user group or AD group to share the GP service with so basically you already have a list of users. but if its a lot of users in that group then that's a bit of a task to identify who uses it most. like the other suggestion, you could just simply make it a "required" parameter on your script for it to execute and store that parameter in a table on your sde or fgdb. You can even go further and auto fill that parameter by somehow hooking up to the AD user table.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

BlakeTerhune — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:49:48 GMT

I've never tried but what if you just put os.getenv('username') in your GP service script?

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

ChrisPedrezuela — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:54:00 GMT

since the script will run on the AGS box, wouldn't this function just pick up the current login credential which will be the ags service account?

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:55:26 GMT

Correct me if I'm wrong, but even making it a 'required' parameter doesn't guarantee who is using it. A user hitting the endpoint directly could pass in someone else's username as the parameter.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

ChrisPedrezuela — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:04:00 GMT

true, those will be the caveat of using it as a required parameter. Unless the suggestion you made to use os.getusername would allow the GP service running on the AGS box to somehow run a python process on the user's own machine. I reckon if you want to do it like that, you might have to include a javascript based function to query the users browser if its using SSO. Just a thought, but its getting a bit complex I think.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 21:13:45 GMT

Yep - overly complex!

It doesn't seem like it's possible currently, but in theory shouldn't be too difficult for ESRI to implement. I might put it in as an Idea at some point....

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

ArjunDongre — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:35:34 GMT

Did you ever get an answer for this? I did exactly this for a map service using an SOI (java), but unfortunately you cannot write SOE/SOI's for geoprocessing services (which I am trying to figure a work around for now).

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:29:17 GMT

Never found a way to get the username, so have assumed the answer is that no, it is not possible.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

DanCronin — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:06:52 GMT

It seems as though you can achieve this by causing the GP tool to create a record in an editor-tracked table. At least, that is what I've observed with a secured GP service + web appbuilder + EGDB. Is there a reason why that's not practical in this case?

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

Anonymous User — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:02:22 GMT

Hi Dan.

You mention "...by causing the GP tool to create a record in an editor-tracked table". The original question was about how a GP tool would know who the user is. Creating a record is easy of course, but no one yet has mentioned a way that the GP tool would actually know the identity/username of the user who triggered the GP service. If you know of a way, please share!

cheers,

-Paul

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

JakubOrálek — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 19:43:27 GMT

Hi. Few years ago I solved it by decripting token send by the GP Service. I prepared DecryptArcGISToken.exe console app that was called from inside a Python script. It uses ESRI.ArcGIS.TokenService.dll

Maybe there is something for Portal too, asuming majority of apps uses Portal authentication.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

MarcusRomboy2 — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:07:21 GMT

I was able to pull the user name out of the jobinfo.json file that is created when a GP tool runs. This file ends up in the Jobs directory where the results of GP tools end up. Such as:

c:\arcgisserver\directories\arcgisjobs\<folder name>\<service>_gpserver\<job id>\jobinfo.json

The jobinfo.json file has the user and the machine that ran the service. A new directory with GP results gets created when the code runs. I snag the path and job id by using arcpy.env.scratchFolder. Then I read the jobsinfo.json file to grab the user and write it to a log.

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

GiacomoFavaron — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:19:32 GMT

This doesn't work for me. I am in 10.5 what version are you?

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

helgesmebye — Sun, 24 May 2020 10:30:23 GMT

Thanks for the solution - solves my problem and lets me track who actually run the GP tool!

Re: Is there any way to get the username of user logged into Arcgis Server via the web for a GP service using arcpy?

FlorianSteiner — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 11:51:46 GMT

Might be different, because the config-file seems to be only available with asynchronous GP-services.