Documentation on ArcGIS Pro Licensing Through Portal

[JoshuaBixby]

At Pre-release, when logging in, I see an option to use Portal to license ArcGIS Pro:

However, when I put in our Portal URL, I get the following error:

Obviously, we need to load Pro licenses into Portal, but I can't seem to find documentation on how to do that or even where we get licenses.  Can someone point me in the right direction?

[DavidWatkins]

Hi Joshua,

This is just a timing thing. You'll need a 10.3 release of Portal in order to use if for licensing ArcGIS Pro. You got the Pre-release of Pro a little earlier than everyone else since you're in the beta program.

David

[RobElkins · Accepted solution]

ArcGIS Server Standard and Advanced Edition customers on Maintenance are entitled at 10.3 to a number of named users that can be used with Portal for ArcGIS. To enable these named users in Portal for ArcGIS, you will need to request a Portal license file from My Esri. 

If you are also entitled to ArcGIS Pro (b/c you own Desktop), these ArcGIS Pro licenses can also be managed with Portal for ArcGIS 10.3. The Portal for ArcGIS Administrator help at Prerelease already includes a topic on this called 'Configure ArcGIS Pro licenses'.  Take a lot at that topic for more details

[JoshuaBixby]

We already have 10.2 Portal running with named users, will hopefully have 10.3 up and running in test environment shortly.

Thanks for the pointer about Pro licensing information, I will take a look.  Will this same information be available on ArcGIS Resources so users don't have to download and extract files to look at higher level information like licensing?

[AndrewWilson99]

Thanks for suggesting this Joshua Bixby‌.

While "gun-and-shoot" infrastructure management may work for beta, hopefully we (GIS infrastructure managers/providers) can chart our path in advance and not have to go down a quasi-reverse engineering path (install, see what happens, tweak, see what happens) in the future.   Writing that down (installing so I can see what to do / what happens) in enterprise service request documentation is a little embarassing!

[JoshuaBixby]

Sadly, I ended up having to install Portal 10.3 on a workstation just to access the documentation on licensing Pro through Portal!  Seems ridiculous, but I have yet to find another place where the information is readily available.