ArcGIS Portal Services

[DeanHowell1]

Can anyone tell me the ramifications of not shutting down the windows services for ArcGIS Portal / Datastore if the server is shut down, either accidentally or through a scheduled task?

Also, will the services automatically restart when the server is rebooted or is this something that needs to be triggered through a start-up script or scheduled task? 

[mdonnelly · Accepted solution]

Hello,

ArcGIS Enterprise is generally pretty resilient and copes with the underlying machine being shut down unexpectedly.

You should set each ArcGIS Enterprise component Windows service to start with Automatic - Delayed to give it the best chance of success when reboots occur.

In addition ensure that you take regular machine snapshots as a disaster recovery option.