I'm trying to get at the administrative endpoint of my server in order to do things like update the definition, truncate, etc.
According to pages like this, there is a simple URL to get at these things, something like:
https://services.myserver.com/arcgis/rest/admin/services
Regardless of what I've tried to adjust in the settings, I continue to see code 403, with the message:
Access to this resource is not allowed
Confusingly, the documentation seems to indicate that */rest/admin/services is completely different from */admin/services. The former is to perform administrative actions against services, and is inaccessible, the latter is to perform system-wide, potentially damaging edits to the server configuration, and can be accessed easily with a token.
I don't understand why it should be harder to truncate a layer than it is to completely break my server, but that seems to be the case. I haven't seen any explanations for why access to this would be locked down, nor how to open it up. Have I missed a setting? Did I skip a line in the docs that say "oh by the way you can only access this locally"?
I know that these kinds of functions are available through the arcgis.features.managers.FeatureLayerManager class in the Python API, but I need to be able to perform this task with a POST request.
- Josh Carlson
Kendall County GIS
