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:
- uninstall all applications,
- deletion of the mapping of the old machine name in the file ... \ etc \ hosts
- reinstall everything,
- apply the same patches (or only the latest (cumulative?))
- restore with webgis dr.
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:
- xxx.yyy.it public host name (not modified)
- zzz.www.local old private host name
- name of the machine in the portal [... / portaladmin / machines] zzz.www.local
- machine name on server [server / admin / machines] zzz.www.local
- machine name in Data Store [... / server / admin / data / items / enterpriseDatabases / AGSDataStore_ds_DBNAME / machines] zzz.www.local
- federation using this server name [.../portal/portaladmin/federation/servers] xxx.yyy.it
- Webgis dr output in --export mode
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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
