Hi all,
We have an installation of Arcgis Enterprise 10.6.1 on a single machine (server and portal federated).
For security reasons, and without planning, we have changed the internal domain name of the machine where the applications are installed (Portal, Server, Data Store and Web Adaptors).
After these changes our Enterprise environment was broken. Our customer support suggested using the file hosts configuration to map the internal IP address to the old internal FQDN. This solution worked well and, therefore, now, our Arcgis Enterprise is reachable and working well, but this configuration is not ideal for production...
We have applied the latest patches to our applications and used the webgis dr tool to back up everything, and now we are planning to restore a production environment with the new real FQDN machine name on the same machine without mapping the old name in file hosts.
We decided to proceed like this:
Reading this blog post {BLOG_link}, on a slightly different scenario {Migrate to a new machine in ArcGIS Enterprise using the WebGIS DR tool} we understood, thanks to this link {
https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/latest/administer/windows/overview-disaster-recovery-replica...}, that the webgis dr tool can handle the machine name change.
This table show wich item or setting must be identical across deployments when running the webgisdr utility
Item or setting | 10.6.1, 10.7.x, 10.8 |
Public portal URLs | Yes |
Services URL for federated servers | Yes |
Registered data stores other than ArcGIS Data Store | Yes |
ArcGIS Server directory paths (for example, arcgisjobs) | No |
Security information (LDAP URLs, proxy information) | No |
Deployment type (single machine or highly available) | No |
Private portal URL | No |
Admin URL for federated servers | No |
Machine names | No |
Portal content directory | No |
ArcGIS Server configuration store | No |
Is there anyone who has successfully tried this solution for our problem?
Any other steps to keep in mind in this work?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Other, useful information:
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Starting the WebGIS DR utility.
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The basic backup time and configuration in the current Web GIS
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Portal: https://xxx.yyy.it/portal at 2/7/21 22:27
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| - Hosting Server: https://xxx.yyy.it/server at 2/7/21 22:27
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| | - Relational data archive: https: //zzz.www.local: 2443 / arcgis
Greetings Pierpaolo
I have been able to move a single-machine ArcGIS Enterprise deployment from one virtual machine to another using webgisDR. The SOP was pretty straight forward and the local hosts file change needed to be made before any software was installed on the new VM.
To make your life easier, ensure your existing enterprise GIS is using a DNS alias across all configuration items that require a URL (where possible). Therefore any routing issues based on FQDN url (e.g. federated AGS service url) are mitigated.
You should have a thorough look at the portal and server admin settings (federation values, web adaptor settings, etc) and change FQDN to the DNS alias or to the new FQDN. You can easily test your changes by removing the entry from the hosts file and accessing the system from a separate client.
Thanks AugusHooper1
can you confirm that after installing Arcgis Enterprise in the second VM (VM2) the machine name for Portal for Arcgis (the one you see in Portaladmin ... / portaladmin / machines) was different from that of VM1?
The problem in restoring the same machine is slightly different and more complicated and I cannot find any documentation on this solution.
In this situation the solution seems to be:
1) reinstall everything
2) change the machine name in the conf file. File
For the first point I don't understand what "reinstall" means. Is it possible to restore items and data (for example using webgis DR) or do you have to start from zero?