Automate administration of ArcGIS Server "search service"

[Will]

Hi,

Is it possible to automate the adminstration of ArcGIS Server search services using Python?  I know you can for map and image services, etc., but are there capabilities in ArcPy, etc. to create/stop/restart search services as well?

Thanks,

Will

[JonathanQuinn]

You'll need to use the urllib or urllib2 and the JSON module within Python to stop or start any service published to ArcGIS Server.  You'll need to generate a token first using the arcgis/tokens/ URL, create an administrative or publisher token, and then append the token to stop or start a service through the Admin API for Server, ex arcgis/admin/services/Utilities/Search.SearchServer/stop or arcgis/admin/services/Utilities/Search.SearchServer/start.  To create them, you can follow the instructions here and recreate that request using Python following the instructions above in appending a token creating through the arcgis/tokens URL to the recreate to create the search service.