Latest Contributions by MarcoBoeringa

I am not to familiar with ArcGIS Monitor, and have never used it, but from what I've read about its function and see in your images, it is clear any activity tracked by ArcGIS Monitor is directly affected by your user's activity. You can even see the 12:00 to 13:00 lunch dip in the CPU usage of Monitor... Personally, I wouldn't worry to much about 80-100% cpu usage, unless it directly impacts the usage of Monitor (slow updating, web interface no longer accessible due to time-outs or so, or whatever else blocks you from using it properly). Instead, having 80-90% of your computing power sitting idle doing nothing is a waste of compute resources and ultimately money. Computers are designed to do work, not to sit idle, and servers and professional workstations are designed to withstand 100% CPU usage for essentially indefinitely. I routinely process global OpenStreetMap data on an HP Z840 workstation with dual CPU's (2x22 cores), which is essentially server hardware packaged in a very large desktop case. I trash it with 100% CPU for days to process the global OpenStreetMap data. Never fails on hardware. Of course, the high CPU usage may indicate this server is at its limit doing real work, maybe because it needs to monitor a very large enterprise deployment with many users and servers and handle all the traffic for that, and you may need to anticipate a server upgrade if you intend to use it for an even larger enterprise deployment in the future. ... View more

Maybe these links are of some use: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/how-to-reattach-land-that-spills-over-the-international-dateline/ https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/data-management/data-management/arcgis-pro-tips-scroll-around-the-world/ https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/properties/allow-dateline-panning.htm If possible in a custom add-in, you'll likely need to limit it to one of the supported projections, or change the projection's central meridian as in John's blog post, which won't give you "wrap" panning, but will allow you to adjust the display across the date line to suite your needs. ... View more

I have extensively used the Maplex label engine with similar settings for waterbodies in various versions of Pro (1.0 to 3.2), but never saw the "disappearing spaces". Looking through the Maplex settings, the only real option I see that might make this happen, is if you have the Position / Abbreviate option selected, and accidentally added a space to the string of characters in the box "Characters to remove first" under Truncation, which might not be immediately obvious. I am not even sure that box accepts spaces, I have never used this specific option. ... View more

Also see this probably related thread with some posts of an ESRI employee: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-questions/arcgis-enterprise-security-patch-dec-2023/m-p/1361553#M38012 ... View more

Note that I am not an ESRI employee: I am not sure, but you may have run into the major issue with a defective security patch ESRI released in June: "Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise Sites Security Patch for 10.8.1, 10.9.1, and 11.1" If I understood it well, if you had this defective patch installed, in order for an upgrade to properly succeed, you would first need to run a recently released "Validation and Repair" tool that ESRI released to deal with this major issue. However, this tool cannot be run after an upgrade, as you seem to already have done. From what I've read, I strongly recommend you to contact ESRI Support as soon as possible. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/trust-arcgis/administration/portal-for-arcgis-enterprise-sites-security-patch-is-now-available/ https://support.esri.com/en-us/patches-updates/2023/defective-arcgis-enterprise-patch https://support.esri.com/en-us/patches-updates/2023/portal-for-arcgis-validation-and-repair ... View more

From what I read in the links you posted, fault tolerance is not the issue with the performance of administering services. Fault tolerance just means stuff doesn't get lost in case of a failure of a single disk or server, e.g. by having a RAID that stores backup copies of any file, or a secondary server storing a backup. It doesn't say anything about the performance of the underlying file system. Your problem is already pointed out by the text you quoted: apparently DFS will not immediately show any changes / writes to it to all machines accessing it, which appears to be required for properly managing your ArcGIS Server installation. This delay caused by DFS makes it unsuitable for storing your configuration store. Based on the remarks of random high IO requirements in the links you posted, you're probably best off putting it on a (dedicated) single server with an NVMe drives based RAID 1 or 5 to have backup of the data. Modern NVMe drives should give you the required random IO performance. ... View more

I think the information you are looking for is on this page: https://support.esri.com/en-us/patches-updates/2023/portal-for-arcgis-enterprise-sites-security-patch I agree the description is not the clearest, but if I interpret this well, the main point seems to be the potential failure of a high availability "standby machine", as described in the quote visible below, which could of course be pretty problematic if your main server goes down due to a problem. Note that this issue only affects Windows installs according to the text: BUG-000160830 - Installing the 11.1 version of the Portal for ArcGIS Enterprise Sites Security Patch results in failures on the standby machine in highly available environments. (11.1 only) I think the other bug numbers mentioned in the quote below, are actually the exact same issue, just with a different bug number for each version of ArcGIS Enterprise: The defects that motivated the temporary disablement of the patches are BUG-000163367 (version 11.1), BUG-000160895 (version 10.9.1), and BUG-000161711 (version 10.8.1) and only impact Windows.   ... View more

Well, there seem to be at least a couple of references to this particular error number and ArcGIS Enterprise / Server. Maybe there is something relevant to find in these links, e.g. did the format of the JSON change, or was there an upgrade to ArcGIS Enterprise using the security patch referenced in the last link, and you now need to patch it further to version 'B' of the patch to get it fixed?: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/paste-features-failed-error-code-10500/td-p/1257549 https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q00009HHHyfSAH/arcsde-data-failing-to-insert-or-update-to-arcgis-enterprise-via-arcgis-portal-feature-service-writer https://support.esri.com/en-us/bug/cannot-create-or-move-existing-features-in-a-hosted-fea-bug-000151760 ... View more

Also note that Esri made this setting default in Pro 3.1, so even if you do not want it, it is still activated. I actually think this is a bad descision on Esri's part, it is always better to let users "opt-in" on new functionality, instead of having to "opt-out". This also reduces the risk of user issues in case the new functionality turns out buggy, as in this case... ... View more

Hi @benken31 , As I wrote, I reported this ambiguos label setting issue as a potential bug to Esri, and they acknowledged it. Based on this, I now in the past week also got a status update of the issue, stating the fix is now in "Product plan", which means the fix will be either in Pro 3.2 or 3.3 according to Esri's issue status handling. ... View more

Isn't this the same issue?: https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-questions/web-appbuilder-does-not-honour-the-symbology-of/m-p/1221558/highlight/true#M48323 Seems you may need to update your workflow to newer tools to be able to use the 4.x JSAPI  features. ... View more

After you posted your problem and question, I just couldn't resist doing an attempt to output a 1073x970 cm wall size map of the United States straight from ArcGIS Pro based on the 1:500k spec and the OpenStreetMap global database created with my ArcGIS Renderer for OpenStreetMap that I created. The screenshot of the resulting giant 1GB(!) size output PDF at its full extent included below, took about 12 -18 hours to export if I remember well, including hillshading. I already had the result on the 13th of May, but since you showed no further interest and it was likely you were making further attempts to concoct your own version, I did not show it before. The additional screenshots again show the actual 1:500k detail of the data, as viewed at 100% display scale in Adobe Reader, and as generalized and prepared by my Renderer from the original OpenStreetMap data. The giant PDF can only be opened on a recent 64bit version of Adobe Reader, and it takes about 10-15 minutes to open on my admittedly powerful but slightly dated HP Z840 hardware. After that, browsing it at 100% is sluggish, but definitely not so bad to be unusable. It was fun and exhilarating to see this gargantuan PDF open up with the tremendous amount of detail. Again, its best to download these images due to the poor preview option of the ESRI Community website, not allowing you to view them at their original 100% scale. I agree about your observations regarding the "Multiply" blend mode, it is the best of all available. I also recognize the issue you posted about vector layers of roads showing hillshade detail through. This issue does not occur in my Renderer, due to the layers for roads being rendered and stacked on top of the hillshade with the blend mode, with the landuse layers below the hillshade in the TOC, that will show the blend and hillshading effect (but this is of course the desired thing). Due to the layers being stacked on top, the shields and road rendering isn't affected by the blending and hillshading (although in this particular "Topo" style I actually don't render shield, but only road ref labels parallel to the roads, I do have another style with a simple form of shields). ... View more

Ah, I misunderstood. I thought it would be put up against a wall, but it is going to be walked on for a one time exercise. I may be wrong, but this sounds a bit like FEMA.gov type work? At least, I could see FEMA doing it. Anyway, the idea sounds kind of fun. If it is indeed for something related to disaster management, maybe I can help you out no cost, but I would sure like to see a bit more info, if not here, via a Private Message or mail. You also haven't specified how quickly you need this. Days, week, month? ... View more

Hi @davedoesgis , Well, some budget must at least be available, as you don't do a 36x24 feet wall print for free at a printing shop.... But I understand the "budget" and outsourcing problem. Although this Renderer is a wholly personal project, in the past, working for a mid-size GIS company here in the Netherlands, I have been dispatched on long term consultancy jobs at multiple Dutch government agencies, sometimes working for years internally, so I have some sense of how these things work. Clearly this is going to be a one-off project considering the output. Anyway, could you share some more details about this project and yourself? If you do not want to share this information on a public forum like this one, drop me a private message here on the "ESRI Community", or send me an e-mail via the mail address included on the SOTM poster. - What government agency are you working for? - What is the occasion for putting up this wall print: temporary or semi-permanent? - Where is it going to be displayed, what office? - Could you share a photo of the wall where it is going to be installed? - Do you have more technical details about your exact requirements for the file format, resolution and size of the needed data file? - Is the content of the print "The lower 48 states" already fixed, or would you potentially consider other options? Surely, the 1:500k hillshaded print of the US will be impressive, but the 1:25k scale of the Renderer's output, as visible in the SOTM poster, is really beautiful as well in print. That would of course require a more localized subject choice, e.g. part of a single state which preferably has good landuse and building coverage in OpenStreetMap. - What is the timeline for this project? When do you need to have this finished? - Is the map itself the final product, or are you going to use it as a backdrop to overlay other data on it before sending it of for print? If so, what is it going to display? - What cartographic projection did you have in mind? I sometimes simply choose a central UTM zone for large regions, as per the suggested UTM zone 14N, as I like the more-or-less equal area property of UTM, simply accepting more shape distortion to the sides, but the Renderer can in fact output to any projection ArcGIS supports, e.g. Equal Earth. ... View more