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GIS Enterprise Reporter now has a companion application “er_compare.exe” that allows you to compare two ArcGIS Enterprise systems.

Looking for a quick way to summarize the details of all your ArcGIS Enterprise services? If so, then System Log Parser's ServiceDetails Analysis Type is highly recommended. This feature performs a scan of your Site through the REST Admin API and presents the gathered information into a spreadsheet report for easy digestion.

The report is a great resource to find details on your service provider statistics, service configuration info, or data source analysis.

The System Log Parser (SLP) utility is great for being able to analyze many different "ArcGIS Enterprise" log sources to help quantify the usage of your Site. It is free and includes an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) called SystemLogsGUI.exe. But, did you know it can also be run from the command line via the slp.exe that is included with the download?
Command line capable execution makes a good fit for automation through PowerShell or good old fashioned bat scripts.

The slp.exe executable includes all of the same capabilities. However, you can override many of the limits imposed by the GUI such as: the end time and start time. You can even access features that are not available from the GUI like: searching with specific UTC dates, customizing the name of the report, and enabling the application debug log (for troubleshooting).

The GIS Enterprise Reporter provides a wide variety of information about the services in ArcGIS Enterprise.  This article describes the information gathered by GIS Enterprise Reporter and how to understand it.

Although you are probably familiar with using System Log Parser (SLP) to read logs and help you quantify your ArcGIS Enterprise usage, there is a relatively new feature in this popular, free utility that can make the effort easier and the analysis more powerful. 

The new feature, commonly referred to as the Optimized report in System Log Parser, allows you perform log queries of much larger time spans. In addition, it can perform the parsing faster and with tremendous memory savings over the classic analysis types (e.g. Simple, WithOverviewCharts and Complete).

The Optimized option still generates a spreadsheet-based report statistically summarizing the collected log information into key time focused categories. 

Resources for planning the virtualization of ArcGIS Pro.

The Architecture Practice team in Professional Services have been writing articles to assist the community to plan, design and deploy ArcGIS Enterprise. This purpose of this page is to be a single resource to all these blogs and will be updated as new posts are created.

This is the second article in the GIS Enterprise Reporter series.  The focus of this article is to offer a bit of guidance for running the application.

GIS Enterprise Reporter allows you to clearly document existing deployments of ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal for ArcGIS, federated ArcGIS Server Sites, ArcGIS Data Stores, etc.).  You can use this tool to document and compare deployments in different environments, understand changes over time, etc.

Please note that this tool is not a product of Esri.  It is a tool produced by an employee of Esri and made broadly available in the hopes that it will be useful.  It is provided "as is".

Apache JMeter is a great load testing tool, but it's a fantastic automation framework too! This Article focuses on using JMeter to call the ArcGIS REST API in order to carry out user management tasks that would be tedious for large numbers of members. 

Table Of Contents

• Administration Automation with Apache JMeter
• The User Administration Test Plans
  • The CSV Data Set Config of Users
  • The Text File List of Users
  • Administrator Login
• Add a New User (portal_users_add1)
• Add a New User (portal_users_add2)
• Add a New User (portal_users_add3)
• Set the Security Question/Answer for New Users (portal_users_update_profile1)
• Disable a User (portal_users_disable1)
• Enable a User (portal_users_enable1)
• The Thread Group Configuration
• Test Execution
• Validating the Test Plans
  • Troubleshooting a Command-line Test Execution
• Final Thoughts
  • A Quick Word on Using Multiple Threads 
  • A Quick Word on Deleting Users