Latest Contributions by ChadKopplin

This week I have seen that our 2 GIS Servers with 8 gb's of RAM / server, was using 91% of the RAM / server.  I saw that there was always a SOC instance open when a map service was not in use.  Here is where the issue begins.  We have 56 map services / server, and the open SOC's are anywhere from 80 - 120 mb's.  We were using just over 7 gb's of RAM just to have a SOC available for the map services, there was not enough space available for processing or very little processing. I needed to tune the map services to not have any SOC's open once the client was finished using the map service.  Here are the steps for adjusting the instances on the map service. 1.  Open ArcCatalog 2.  Make an administrative GIS server connection      a.  Click GIS Servers      b.  Click Add GIS Server      c.  Select Administer GIS server and click next      d.  Next add your server (i.e. http://<my_gis_server>:6080/arcgis)      e.  For Authentication, I use my ArcGIS server account      f.  Click Finish 3.  In the list of servers double click on your administrative connection to connect to the server 4.  Right click on the service that you want to change the available instances 5.  Select Service properties 6.  On the left side of the Service Editor dialogue, click on Pooling 7.  Under Specify the Number of Instance change the minimum number of instances per machine to 0 8.  Click on OK This procedure will not leave any open instances for the map service once the instance is not being used.  The map service will create the SOC automatically once a client starts to use the service. I set all of my map services minimum instances to 0 and I will monitor the use to see if a should increase on a case-by-case basis.  I have noticed that the map services are responding quicker.  I am beginning to test if the better speed is due to the extra RAM, or if a bug might be there in the use of the existing instance.  I will let you all know what I find out. ... View more

With the way our state is serving GIS data through our GEOHUB, we can load the metadata to the site in either FGDC or ISO formats.  I have been having a problem exporting the metadata for the map services that we needed to upload.  I have found where the metadata is stored on the server for the map service.  The best part of this is if you set the metadata to the FGDC standard then this is the stored version in the metadata location on the server.  the user can give their system administrator the following path (with key items changed to your server), and then copy the xml to a location of your choosing.  The user can then change the name to a name that makes sense to them.  Here is the path: C:\arcgisserver\config-store\services\<Service_Name>.MapServer\esriinfo\metadata\metadata.xml The cool thing is there is no need to export, at this point because this file is in the format that you choose all ready.  I hope this helps people who may be new to setting up metadata for a map service. ... View more