This blog provides a general workflow for setting up ArcGIS Monitor to work with your enterprise deployment.

Ardent Management Consulting (MC) is a technology firm with several US federal customers. They use ArcGIS Monitor to help deliver highly performant enterprise GIS systems to their clients.

ArcGIS Monitor 2023.2 is a minor update that adds the ability to set a data retention policy for the ArcGIS Monitor database.

This blog discusses the ArcGIS Monitor activities at the Esri 2023 UC. Highlights include: a precon workshop, tech sessions, a user presentation, and Expo kiosk.

Admin Utility for ArcGIS Monitor is a python command line utility to assist administrators with:

1. Deployment scripting: setup, users, labels, components, collections, analysis
2. Batch updates: intervals, alerts

Also, the provided source code can assist developers with REST API usage (https://xxxx:30443/arcgis/apidoc)

Download: https://prof-services.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=129f2dbfde634f12bfae6f41121c9ff1

Note, this utility is not an ArcGIS Monitor product supported feature or a supported Esri product.

Overview

ArcSOCOptimizer is a python command line utility.  It can help administrators:

1. Reduce memory by identifying low usage services with dedicated pooling and reducing the overall number of arcsoc.exe processes:
   1. changing dedicated to shared instance pool, if supported  
   2. reducing min instances for dedicated instance pool services
2. Improve performance by identifying high usage service and allocating dedicated arcsoc.exe processes if available memory:
   1. changing shared to dedicated instance pool
   2. increasing min instances for dedicated instance pool 

Excel Report for ArcGIS Monitor is a python-based command utility that provides reporting for components, logs, metric stats and alerts. 

Case study on how South Jersey Industries leverages ArcGIS Monitor to help them optimize the health and performance of their enterprise GIS.

This is a minor update that has some new functionality, UI/UX improvements, and several bug fixes.

With ArcGIS Monitor Server 2023, a reverse proxy may be used to present a more standard URL to users, mask the private ports (30080, 30443), or even handle SSL termination. This article will explain how to quickly configure IIS to handle these cases with a simple configuration. 

Install IIS URL Rewrite and ARR

IIS should already be enabled through the Windows Server Manager. To act as a reverse proxy, the URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing (ARR) extensions for IIS must be added. They may be downloaded and installed from Microsoft at the following locations:

URL Rewrite : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Application Request Routing : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Configure a URL Rewrite Rule

In IIS, a URL rewrite rule may be configured to forward traffic from IIS to ArcGIS Monitor.

1. Click Start and type inetmgr to open the IIS manager

2. Choose the Default Web Site, then Add Rules 

3. Choose  Reverse Proxy to open the rules dialog

4. Under Inbound Rules, define the address and port to which incoming requests should be forwarded.

In the case below, the target ArcGIS Monitor Server resides on the same machine as IIS, so localhost will work. However, if they are separated, use the FQDN of the ArcGIS Monitor Server machine.

Port 30080 may be used for both HTTP and HTTPS as long as Enable SSL Offloading is checked (this ultimately assumes HTTPS is configured at IIS and with a certificate) and will encrypt traffic from the user to IIS using its certificate.

Enable HTTPS

When choosing to offload SSL at IIS, HTTPS should be enabled along with a trusted certificate.

1. Choose the Default Web Site, then Bindings... to open Site Bindings dialog

2. Choose Add to add a new Site Binding

3. Select Type as https and choose the relevant SSL certificate available to IIS. A certificate may need to be provisioned if needed.

Update ArcGIS Monitor Web Context URL

The ensure proper URL generation for all workflows, update the ArcGIS Monitor Web Context URL to match the new path through IIS:

1. As an administrator, log into ArcGIS Monitor

2. Navigate to Administration

3. Under Server > Server Configuration Settings, choose Edit

4. Update the Web Context URL to match the new path through IIS

5. Restart ArcGIS Monitor for the changes to take effect

Validate Results

With this configuration in place, ArcGIS Monitor Server should now resolve over HTTPS without the need to enter the port!