Latest Contributions by RobertBuckley1

Would the fastest option be to create the mosaic dataset in my sde and store the overviews there as well and have it reference the images from an UNC Path on the network? ... View more

Using ArcGIS Server 10.5.1 I want to publish a mapservice with a single imagemoasaic dataset. However, I dont want to have the footprints and outline published with it as this creates too many extra layers in the map. ... View more

Hi...i have just had this problem with a single service which couldn't be started or deleted and only gave the following error message - "A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 1 of" After reading the threads I decided to delete the lifecycleinfos.json file (which by the way was only filled with NULLNULLNULL) and also all of the lockfiles. Afterwards I was able to delete and republish the serice.   Hope this helps someone.     ... View more

This is my script ...but the properties do not get  changed. Anyone know why?     # For Http calls import httplib, urllib, json # For system tools import sys # For reading passwords without echoing import getpass # Defines the entry point into the script def main(argv=None): # Print some info print print "This tool is a sample script" print # Ask for admin/publisher user name and password username = "xxx" password = "xxx" # Ask for server name serverName = "xxx" serverPort = 6080 folder = 'Geobasisdaten' # Get a token token = getToken(username, password, serverName, serverPort) if token == "": print "Could not generate a token with the username and password provided." return folderURL = "/arcgis/admin/services/commandx/" # This request only needs the token and the response formatting parameter params = urllib.urlencode({'token': token, 'f': 'json'}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} # Connect to URL and post parameters httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(serverName, serverPort) httpConn.request("POST", folderURL, params, headers) # Read response response = httpConn.getresponse() if (response.status != 200): httpConn.close() print "Could not read folder information." return else: data = response.read() # Check that data returned is not an error object if not assertJsonSuccess(data): print "Error when reading folder information. " + str(data) else: print "Processed folder information successfully. Now processing services..." # Deserialize response into Python object dataObj = json.loads(data) httpConn.close() # Loop through each service in the folder and stop or start it for item in dataObj['services']: # Edit desired properties of the service dataObj["minInstancesPerNode"] = 0 dataObj["maxInstancesPerNode"] = 2 # Serialize back into JSON updatedSvcJson = json.dumps(dataObj) # Call the edit operation on the service. Pass in modified JSON. editSvcURL = folderURL + str(item["serviceName"])+ ".MapServer" + "/edit" print editSvcURL params = urllib.urlencode({'token': token, 'f': 'json', 'service': updatedSvcJson}) httpConn.request("POST", editSvcURL, params, headers) # Read service edit response editResponse = httpConn.getresponse() if (editResponse.status != 200): httpConn.close() print "Error while executing edit." return else: editData = editResponse.read() # Check that data returned is not an error object if not assertJsonSuccess(editData): print "Error returned while editing service" + str(editData) else: print "Service edited successfully." httpConn.close() return # A function to generate a token given username, password and the adminURL. def getToken(username, password, serverName, serverPort): # Token URL is typically http://server[:port]/arcgis/admin/generateToken tokenURL = "/arcgis/admin/generateToken" params = urllib.urlencode({'username': username, 'password': password, 'client': 'requestip', 'f': 'json'}) headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "Accept": "text/plain"} # Connect to URL and post parameters httpConn = httplib.HTTPConnection(serverName, serverPort) httpConn.request("POST", tokenURL, params, headers) # Read response response = httpConn.getresponse() if (response.status != 200): httpConn.close() print "Error while fetching tokens from admin URL. Please check the URL and try again." return else: data = response.read() httpConn.close() # Check that data returned is not an error object if not assertJsonSuccess(data): return # Extract the token from it token = json.loads(data) return token['token'] # A function that checks that the input JSON object # is not an error object. def assertJsonSuccess(data): obj = json.loads(data) if 'status' in obj and obj['status'] == "error": print "Error: JSON object returns an error. " + str(obj) return False else: return True # Script start if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:])) ... View more

This is exactly the script that I have been trying to adapt. I can't seem to find one which loops through an AGS Folder though. ... View more

a while later there were in fact problems with feature services. ... View more