Latest Contributions by DerekLaw

Hi Rebecca, Did i read the install help correctly and you can use one web adaptor for both ArcGIS Server and Portal? Yes, you can use one Web Adaptor for both ArcGIS for Server and Portal for ArcGIS. Please note: - the release versions of Portal and the Web Adaptor must be the same, so both must be 10.2; and - the release versions of Server and the Web Adaptor must be the same. In your case, you are running ArcGIS 10.1 for Server with a 10.1 Web Adaptor. If you want to use Portal for ArcGIS, you will need to use a 10.2 Web Adaptor. Therefore, you won't be able to share a Web Adaptor for both Server and Portal; until you upgrade your Server site to 10.2. In addition, you can�??t run 10.1 and 10.2 Web Adaptors in the same web server. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Jacob, Would it be better to deploy Portal on a separate server from ArcGIS for Server? I think it depends on the load and capacity that your Server and Portal sites will be supporting. If it should be deployed on a separate server, what are the recommended hardware requirements, are they the same as ArcGIS for Server? As Tatiana referenced in her post, the Portal system requirements are in the help documentation. The ArcGIS Server system requirements can be found here. Is there any documentation available online to help with deployment? Portal for ArcGIS general help Portal for ArcGIS Administrators guide Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Adam, Do we have to buy ArcGIS Online "named user" seats to begin to use Portal? Are the "named user" seats one in the same from Online to Portal? FYI: AGOL and Portal named users are different and separate things. You can purchase "named user" seats for AGOL or for Portal. ANY further information on this would be much appreciated. I can't find any solid documentation that says anything other than "Portal" uses "named users". Nothing about what named users are, where you get them - in relation to Portal.... I believe additional information will be coming soon, specifically regarding the Esri UC announcement that organizations who have ArcGIS Desktop will get a "named user" account for either AGOL or Portal. Please also check with your local Esri account manager/Distributor for details. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Mike, What is the minimum license level ArcGIS Server needs to be designated as a Hosting Server? You get Portal as an extension to ArcGIS Server Advanced (Enterprise and Workgroup). Therefore, you can install Portal and use the same Server license to create an ArcGIS Server site, federate it with Portal, then enable it to be a hosted server. So in theory, you don�??t need an additional Server license. If you wanted to add a second and different ArcGIS Server site (i.e., using a different Server license than the one above), as a hosted server �?? you would need at minimum ArcGIS Server Standard. ArcGIS Server Basic will not work as a hosted server. FYI: Portal only supports a single hosted server. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Steve, Is it possible to use 1 Web Adaptor for different sites? I can confirm Bubba's earlier post: you can't use a Web Adaptor for mutiple ArcGIS Server sites. One Web Adaptor can only be used for a single ArcGIS Server site, but an ArcGIS Server site can have many Web Adaptors configured for it. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Adam, Specifically with Portal for ArcGIS deployed locally, what does the statement, "is licensed and priced based on the number of named users" mean? This statement means that Portal for ArcGIS has a different licensing model compared to ArcGIS for Server. ArcGIS for Server licensing is based on the number of cores in your server machine, but Portal for ArcGIS is based on the number of named users that can sign into it. Portal for ArcGIS has a similar licensing model to ArcGIS Online, which is based on named users. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Jenn, Is it possible to have more than 1 user log in to ArcGIS Online using the same account information at the same time? Please see the answer in this thread: ArcGIS Online Member Accounts Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi BP, Is it not possible to use Esri ArcMap with a Teradata database? Support for spatial type data in a Teradata database is coming with the ArcGIS 10.2 release, Teradata and ArcGIS Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi James, ... In analyzing the site, an error about feature service not being set to a registered database is returned. ... Some things to check for: 1. Have you added the ArcGIS Server account as a user to your ArcSDE geodatabase (and the SQL Server instance)? You'll need to ensure it has read/write permissions on the feature class and version that you want to enable for web editing. Authoring feature services 2. Have you added your ArcSDE geodatabase as a valid data store to your ArcGIS Server site? About registering your data with the server Registering a SQL Server database with the server Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Jamal, I�??m not sure if I�??m correct when I say that: �?� The min/max number of instances (ArcSOC.exe) indicates the number of concurrent requests (such as zoom, pan, query, etc.) that can be SERVED simultaneously (without failure) when requested via functions available on a web mapping application. �?� The high/low resolution is a CPU/RAM issue. High isolation means that the same ArcSOC.exe will be serving only one request while low isolation means that each ArcSOC.exe will be serving multiple requests. Therefore, in the high isolation, the RAM will be consumed (due having multiple ArcSOC.exe) while in the low isolation the CPU will be consumed as multiple request will be served by single ArcSOC.exe. Yes, generally speaking - both statements above are correct. By the way, do the terms �??service�?�, �??instance�?� and �??process�?� are used interchangeably? No, I would not. From wikipedia: "web service" is different from an "instance". And the term "process" can be interpreted differently by different people. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Jamal, Which trades off can be made here between having the data stored in ArcSDE geodatabase to allow multiuser environment or storing it in file geodatabase for better performance? It depends on what functionality you want to enable in your web services. You'll need to have your data in an ArcSDE geodatabase to enable web editing. At 10.2, you can have the data stored in a spatially enabled database that is not a geodatabase. I have been posting a question but never got an answer: are Silverlight and Flex (viewers) much faster that ADF? Actually I believe I replied to this question already, please see my 2nd post earlier in this thread. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Jamal, Let�??s have the following scenario: In the screenshot below I have a service named �??T5�?� with the following tuning: �?� Minimum number of instances per machine: 1 �?� Maximum number of instances per machine: 2 �?� Isolation: high [ATTACH=CONFIG]24755[/ATTACH] In this particular case, does this mean that the maximum number of users who can access the �??T5�?� service AT THE SAME TIME by a web application is 2? And thus if the third concurrent user tries to access it then his/her web application fails? Think of each instance as a unit of work that can process a request to the service. For example: zooming-in, querying, etc. - each action is a request on the service. So when you have 2 users from 2 different web apps, each making a request to the T5 service, then yes, it is busy and the 3rd user will wait until the 2 requests are completed and an instance becomes available. 1. The distinction between the service (T5, for example) and its instances? Does the instance refer to the ArcSOC.exe generated in the processes of the operating system that takes from the RAM of the machine? If you have high isolation set for the service then yes, each instance equals an ArcSOC process. If you have low isolation set for the service then no; an ArcSOC process can contain multiple instances. And this is a general rule, I believe there can be some exceptions. 2. The distinction between the instance and its processes (instance per process)? I am not sure what you're asking here ... 3. Why the max/min number of instances is set to be PER machine? Which machines? Is it the host (server) machine? Or the client machine that uses the service/instance/process? At Server 10.1 we introduced a new architecture, where you define your instances per machine. Each machine in a multi-machine ArcGIS Server site deployment is a GIS server. When you add a new GIS server to an ArcGIS Server site, you duplicate the available resources for the site (assuming the machines are in the same cluster). And yes, this is for the GIS server machine, not the client machine. 4. It is correct to say that �??high isolation�?� option will be consuming the CPU of the host machine and thus slowing accessing the services by web applications and in return �??low isolation�?� will significantly enhance the speed of accessing the services be web application (while taking much size of the RAM)? From the help topic I referenced in my previous post: The advantage of low isolation is that it increases the number of concurrent instances supported by a single process. Using low isolation can significantly improve memory consumption on your server. However, this improvement comes with some risk. If a process experiences a shutdown or crash, all instances sharing the process are destroyed. Hope this helps, ... View more

Hi Timothy, Is there something special/unusual about the geodatabase name? Perhaps the name contains an odd character? Is the database name longer than 31 characters? (Which I believe is the character limit.) What happens when you try to create and register a new geodatabase with a different name? Does it work? Hope this helps, ... View more