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ArcGIS Enterprise 11.0: What is physically saved in the “arcgisdatastore” and “arcgisportal” folders when publishing data with federated ArcGIS Server

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10-04-2022 12:27 PM
JamalNUMAN
Legendary Contributor

ArcGIS Enterprise 11.0: What is physically saved in the “arcgisdatastore” and “arcgisportal” folders when publishing data with federated ArcGIS Server?

 

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Jamal Numan
Geomolg Geoportal for Spatial Information
Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
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DebendraBiswas1
Occasional Contributor

Hi Jamal,


To the best of my knowledge, arcgisportal folder holds information related to portal security that you apply to the different data and services on the portal, users, roles, groups information, licensing information, federation gis server, and their roles information, and all other portal settings which you see on the interface. Under the hood, it uses postgreSQL to store users, roles, and authentication-related information, but the folder never stores any spatial data as such (hosted or referenced).


Whereas arcgisdatastore folder stores spatial data mainly hosted data.

JamalNUMAN
Legendary Contributor

Even When publishing with “map image” option under the “copy all data section”, the physical data is saved in “arcgisserver” folder (as per the screenshot below) but not in “arcgisdatastore”.

 

What could be the issue here?

 

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Jamal Numan
Geomolg Geoportal for Spatial Information
Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
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ReeseFacendini
Esri Regular Contributor

Only data for Hosted layers will be saved in the "arcgisdatastore" folder. Map Image layers are not Hosted, so the data for them is saved within the "arcgisserver" folder.

ReeseFacendini
Esri Regular Contributor

The "arcgisdatastore" folder contains all the configuration settings and data for the ArcGIS DataStore component(s). Hosted layers, 3D web scenes, real-time data are examples of items stored in that folder.

The "arcgisportal" folder contains the settings and content for the Enterprise Portal. All items (web maps, web apps, dashboards, etc.) have their files stored here. 

JamalNUMAN
Legendary Contributor

Then how layers can be set as “hosted”?

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Jamal Numan
Geomolg Geoportal for Spatial Information
Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
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ReeseFacendini
Esri Regular Contributor

Under the "Copy all data" section, choose the "Feature" button

JamalNUMAN
Legendary Contributor

Under the “copy all data” section, as the feature is selected, the “publish” button gets grayed out.

What could be the issue here?

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Jamal Numan
Geomolg Geoportal for Spatial Information
Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
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