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AngusHooper1
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10-09-2025
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(7 Idea Submissions)Latest Contributions by AngusHooper1
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There is no easy answer here as it is entirely dependent on the use case, how much "work" a single user will put on the infrastructure and how much "work" is simultaneous. The software responds well to vertical scaling so I would aim low and increase vCPU and RAM as needed. There is plenty of doco from Esri on these topics, i.e., https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/deploy/windows/data-storage-considerations-for-an-arcgis-server-site.htm or https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-services/windows/tuning-and-configuring-services.htm. As an example, I would not be providing any apps or maps that use the feature service for visualisation. You should offload that to a map service as it will be more performant. You should also push as much work as possible onto hosted feature layers as these are more performant across the platform.
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04-10-2023
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Ditto. Common feedback and best practice is to not use shared instances for imagery services. Also, you may want to look into how ArcGIS Server is accessing the underlying data at a protocol level (e.g. SMB). If this issue is occurring daily then there may be a session timeout/cache issue.
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04-05-2023
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Be careful when inserting hard coded url's that reference an IP or the fully qualified domain name. Although it may work today, it can cause strife later on when you need to change machine or IP address. You should try to use a DNS alias where possible.
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04-04-2023
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It is also a security concern (low) as it enables a user to confirm/deny the existence of an account in the external identity store (i.e. LDAP). https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-portal-questions/disable-password-reset-functionality/m-p/1086042#M11358
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03-22-2023
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This is a common symptom for a fundamental issue in your ArcGIS Server stack. If you have deployed to a windows environment, the next step would be to investigate the logs in Event Viewer for when you start/stop the service.
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02-06-2023
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Spend some time learning how to use Test-NetConnection in PowerShell. Test-NetConnection -Port 6443 -ComputerName "myArcgisServer.com" -InformationLevel "Detailed"
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01-26-2023
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If it is almost a brand new site then I would contemplate rebuilding it with that DNS alias in mind. Also, I would encourage you not to use the computer name in the URL or alias. Future proof yourself and make sure every component has a friendly alias, i.e. portal.companyname.com, maps.companyname.com.
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01-26-2023
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SAML identity providers integrated with ArcGIS Enterprise can support group membership. Similarly, it would be great to support OIDC backed group membership through calls to a groups or memberOf (etc) property.
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11-21-2022
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How do we create an info banner in a custom python toolbox? The join field geoprocessing tool is a good example of the desired functionality. This gp tool displays a blue info banner with a green text message that "this tool modifies the input table". Is this exposed as a tool method or property? Or, is this part of the pro sdk?
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08-24-2022
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Interestingly I cannot find anything listening on 8081 within our 10.8.1 Enterprise. As outlined in the microsoft doco, there is a bunch of best practise you can use to mitigate this risk. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-firewall/best-practices-configuring. Ensure your security review considers mitigating mechanisms and is not clear-cut with compliant/non-compliant. As a FYI, I would recommend you install the ArcGIS software to the D drive and leave C to the OS. E drive can then store the site information (e.g. arcgis server directories).
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08-16-2021
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I was wary of doing this for obvious reasons. Is there a specific table or workflow?
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08-15-2021
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ArcGIS Enterprise Portal allows you to set showForgotUsername: false in the config.js and it also allows you to disable the ability for users to create built-in accounts via the portal organisation settings page. What is missing is the ability to disable the "forgot password" interface. Using this interface allows someone to confirm/deny the existence of accounts within the identity store even if that identity is within the built-in store or a 3rd party identity store (e.g. ldap). Is there a mechanism for disabling the ability to reset a password for an account in Portal?
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08-04-2021
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Unfortunately the locks cannot be easily cleared as the python tool errors out due to the scale of locks. It does clear some, but not all.
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08-04-2021
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What is the system locale time for the various VMs that support Portal, hosting server etc?
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07-11-2021
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We have an enterprise geodatabase (AWS Aurora, postgres) that has a significant number of sessions and locks (10,000+). These sessions and locks date back to 8+ months ago. These tables and feature classes are only accessed by cached map services from a multi-machine ArcGIS Server site. All of these map services have been set to use "shared services" in the pooling. Theoretically if everything maxed out we would expect to see 200 concurrent connections to the database via these services. We have tested these services in our dev environment using dedicated pooling and cannot replicate these persistent lock issues. Has anyone else noticed that shared services from a multi-machine ArcGIS Server site not dropping the connection to the database? Our assumption is that when the service is recycled it never truly drops the connection. This is somewhat justified by Aurora never showing 0 connections to the database as there is always the minimum threshold as indicated by our shared service pooling size. update We have been able to replicate the schema locks persisting after the service has been stopped in our dev environment. Only changing the number of shared instances for the ArcGIS Server site cleared the locks.
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06-22-2021
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My kudoed posts
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