Latest Contributions by AngusHooper1

‎03-19-2020

Are there any options available for configuring "operational hours" with regards to email notifications or Monitor in general? We have standard alerts in place for our GISs and these behave as we would like during business hours. However, outside of business hours the infrastructure teams may perform maintenance or outages. These processes cause a significant amount of alerts due to known causes (e.g. network hardware maintenance). Ideally we could set Monitor to only report on issues from 6am to 6pm.

‎03-17-2020

Investigating and programatically handling administrative changes to a GIS can be an awkward process. If administrative changes were able to trigger a webhook then this could be plugged into a logging mechanism or change management process. In the same way that /item/ can trigger a webhook, /portaladmin/ should as well. The end goal of such a webhook would be the ability to write all administrative changes to a file. This record can then be used for diagnostic purposes in the event that a major outage occurs. Current mechanisms would require parsing through web server and application logs.

‎03-01-2020

After successfully upgrading from 10.6.1 ArcGIS Enterprise to 10.7.1 we are left with a sizable amount of data in D:\arcgisportal\upgrade-backup\10.6.1. Can this directory be safely deleted now it is some time after the 10.6.1 - 10.7.1 upgrade? Should it not self-delete during the upgrade process?

‎02-19-2020

As per the documentation here, item usage is only available with ArcGIS Online. If this could be extended to ArcGIS Enterprise that would be extremely useful. Item owners would then be able to generate BI rather than requesting it from GIS administrators.

‎01-29-2020

One issue you will hit is any reference to https://arcgis.mybiz.io/arcgis/mydataservice will now be broken. These references will occur externally and internally to the GIS. The only permanent resolution to this is to programatically fix these references, but that is no easy task. I believe 10.7.1 now allows you to do this manually in the item details page so hopefully your GIS doesn't have too many items. Or, set up redirect logic in your web tier.

‎01-09-2020

How do you go about registering the tilecache datastore to use a NAS? I have successfully registered it to a \\UNCPathToNAS\ location and the hosting server is working with this location. I can see the relevant directories on the NAS which would indicate the couchdb is located there. However, when I then publish a hosted scene layer, the data is dumped to a new directory on D:\UNCPathToNas\nosqldata etc. Everything is working but the data is in the wrong location. Running describedatastore reports the UNC path as the data location - but this is clearly not the case.

‎01-08-2020

I had to find this post again after I realised I potentially have an image service with pyramids at inappropriate levels with respect to our basemap levels. Luckily, we are on the right side of this performance pattern and resampling is not required. However, this goes against my understanding as I thought we were going to have performance implications. Let's say your basemap tiling has a level 14 at 10,000, should the pyramid be at 9,500 or 10,500? I had assumed (potentially incorrectly) that you would want 9,500 for the pyramid so that the resampling up to 10,000 when drawing in the web is minimal. What my tests showed was that our image service drew quickly at 10,000 even though the pyramid was at 10,500.

‎01-06-2020

Six years later and this is still a phenomenal post. Thank you.

‎11-10-2019

We have a spatial table in a SQL Server enterprise geodatabase - data type is GEOGRAPHY. We have then created spatial views of this table. These spatial views have then been published as a map image layer to ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1 from ArcGIS Pro 2.4.2. The resulting map image layer displays as expected in ArcGIS Pro 2.4.2 and interacts with the time enabled properties. However, when this map image layer is added to the 2D map viewer in Portal 10.6.1, the browser crashes. Interestingly, when adding all the individual feature layers (e.g. layer 0 from this map image layer) it is fine and we cannot replicate the crashing behaviour in the 2D map viewer. Any ideas?

‎10-16-2019

Do you mind clarifying the problem you are having? Are some users not experiencing SSO? Are they prompted for a username/pass, provide these credentials and can then log in? Or, are some users not able to login at all as Portal cannot read the AD domain those users exist in?

‎10-15-2019

Look at your console & network trace (developer tools in the browser) to see if any CORS or other common errors are raised when accessing the GPServer endpoint.

‎10-03-2019

Morning, I have ArcGIS Monitor 10.7.1 monitoring several GIS' deployments. We have noticed that after a specific date & time, our 5 minute and 15 minute collections can randomly spike to take over 5 minutes. This is not too concerning for the 15 minute collection, but is clearly an issue for the 5 minute colleciton. Prior to this date/time, both collections were completing in under a minute. The date & time that this issue began on was a weekend and therefore an automated ICT issue is the likely cause (e.g. a windows patch rollout). Additionaly, when we receive the collection alerts, these align with a system counter that took a considerable time to collect and usually accounts for the increased collect time (e.g. a system collector for a singular VM took 320 seconds, 5 minute collection took 340 seconds). The VM that this system counter spikes/hangs on is random but it is always the system counter that is the underlying issue. As Monitor was 100% performing as expected before this specific date & time, is there any common culprits we should be looking into that could degrade the system counter from behaving as normal? Or, any windows changes that could impact the counter? Once again, these spikes in collection time only occur a couple times a day and do not necessarily align with expect load on the system aka during business hours.

‎10-01-2019

The geometry service that the Portal is configured to use is baked into the WAB app data. This is not configurable in the app, a widget or web map.

‎10-01-2019

Morning, I am trying to create a script that searches an items dependencies & data, finds legacy URL's/services and updates these to the new version of that URL/service. Example of script orig_data = item.getdata() new_data = orig_data.replace(old_url, new_url) item.update(item_properties=None, data=new_data, thumbnail=None, metadata=None) The outcome of this script, when used with WAB Apps, is the app breaking and returning an error page of "'False' is undefined". What is wrong with the above methodology for WAB Apps? Is there an alternative workflow to achieve the same end goal of updating legacy dependencies that are baked into a WAB App?

‎09-18-2019

Regarding Portal, is there anything stopping you from simply editing the federation urls (e/.g. private portal url) to https://dnsalias.domain.com...? You may find you also need to define the webcontexturl for Portal. I would be testing these configurations in a QA environment first as you will likely have to unfederate & federate several times to see which configuration provides the desired output. Regarding datastore, I also have these questions.

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Latest Contributions by AngusHooper1

Monitor 10.7.1 - configuring email options

Webhooks - administrative change trigger

Portal upgrade backup

Python API - item usage for ArcGIS Enterprise

Re: How to migrate ArcGIS Server and Database with Zero Downtime in AWS?

Register tilecache datastore on NAS

Re: Designing and Optimizing Image Services for High-Performance Analysis

Re: Designing and Optimizing Image Services for High-Performance Analysis

Time enabled map image layer break in 2D map viewer

Re: Portal and Active Directory Federation Service - IIS Authentication settings?

Re: Server Error 403

Collection times spiking randomly?

Re: item.update() is breaking WAB apps

item.update() is breaking WAB apps

Re: ArcGIS Data Store and Portal admin URL using DNS

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