Latest Contributions by AngusHooper1

That looks correct. Keep in mind that the rollback is quite easy, just change it back to machine name.   Also, this only applies for Portal for ArcGIS. ArcGIS Server does not allow you to /edit the web adaptor endpoint. In order to achieve the same end result you'll need to reinstall the WA and ensure you access the configuration endpoint via the DNS alias from the local machine when configuring it. This may not be relevant for the recent releases though as the web adaptor config process has been tweaked by the looks of it. ... View more

Sorry, yes it should be ALB. When we set the health check to use the web adaptor we generally have no issues and as you have suggested it should be a great way to ensure that both the web adaptor and the site are operational. Since we are using chef to deploy and configure the web adaptor we have certain instances where the web adaptor either doesn't configure at all or it takes a few attempts to configure. During this configuration time or when it doesn't configure at all, any requests that go to https://server.domain.com/webadaptorname/ * will receive an ArcGIS error page indicating that no server machines have been configured with the web adaptor. When viewing this page as a user through a browser it is obvious that it is an error message, however the web adaptor simply sees a 200 response from the ArcGIS error page and marks the instance as healthy. This has resulted in users seeing the above error page as the instance is then put into production. If we just hit the 6443/rest/info/healthcheck we have the same problem of the instance being marked as healthy before the web adaptor has configured. While we have not yet seen a web adaptor fail in our cloud deployment we could envisage a situation where the web adaptor drops its configuration and starts to show the no server associated with this web adaptor but still being marked as healthy as the Esri error page returns a 200 error. ... View more

https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000012876 ... View more

Your GIS architecture looks fine.   However, we hope to disable the REST API web interface and Service Admin API if accessed externally. Is this achievable with the above setup? If you want this accessible internally but not externally then you will need to handle this via your external load balancer. Also, if removing the dedicated web adaptor tier and installing the 3 x web adaptor on the Portal Server as you would normally do, I can see the benefit of resource-saving. Is there any other benefit from doing that? Installing 3 x web adaptors onto the Portal VM is not normal. Typical deployments have the web adaptor installed on each components VM. In your architecture you would have the WA installed on the portal server, hosting and general server. The only consideration I would throw into the mix here is defining DNS alias' now. It's quite frustrating to remediate legacy data services that use old fully qualified domain names and not a more agile alias.   ... View more

Use the python API. https://developers.arcgis.com/python/api-reference/arcgis.gis.server.html#service Specifically an edit operation against the GIS admin service object. You would parse back the exact same JSON properties with your edits to minInstancePerNode and maxInstancePerNode.    https://developers.arcgis.com/python/guide/managing-your-gis-servers/#Administering-services Here is the section of the guide that introduces the object. ... View more

Double check the LM when you run this script. You may be borrowing a license per multiprocess thread and hitting a cap. ... View more

Are you using a single use license, pulling from a concurrent use license manager or via ArcGIS Online? ... View more

Paraphrasing the FAQ: Open the ArcGIS Portal Directory and sign in with an administrator account. The URL is formatted https://webadaptorhost.domain.com/webadaptor/portaladmin. Click System - Indexer - Index Status. Refresh the page to obtain the latest status.   Depending on the result of the index status: Navigate to System - Indexer - Reindex. Click the Mode drop-down list, and select Full. Leave all other settings to default. Click Reindex. ... View more

I have been able to move a single-machine ArcGIS Enterprise deployment from one virtual machine to another using webgisDR. The SOP was pretty straight forward and the local hosts file change needed to be made before any software was installed on the new VM.  To make your life easier, ensure your existing enterprise GIS is using a DNS alias across all configuration items that require a URL (where possible). Therefore any routing issues based on FQDN url (e.g. federated AGS service url) are mitigated. You should have a thorough look at the portal and server admin settings (federation values, web adaptor settings, etc) and change FQDN to the DNS alias or to the new FQDN. You can easily test your changes by removing the entry from the hosts file and accessing the system from a separate client. ... View more

Have you successfully registered the S3 bucket as a cloud store with AGS or Portal using access keys?   https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/manage-data/windows/registering-your-data-with-arcgis-server-using-manager.htm#ESRI_SECTION2_D57ED56F5E1C4CB4A47B78E0BE775541 ... View more

Depending on your architecture, you will need to handle changing public ip addresses associated with the EC2.  https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-instance-addressing.html#concepts-public-addresses We release your instance's public IP address when it is stopped, hibernated, or terminated. Your stopped or hibernated instance receives a new public IP address when it is started. This is why Esri documentation & cloudformation templates require an elastic IP as this presents a static IP address for your instance. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/ec2-associate-static-public-ip/   You'll also need to double check any internal mappings you have with federation url's, service url's, web adaptor etc etc. Make sure these reference anything other than the public ec2 ip, e.g. your DNS or the private IP.    A private IPv4 address, regardless of whether it is a primary or secondary address, remains associated with the network interface when the instance is stopped and started, or hibernated and started, and is released when the instance is terminated. ... View more