Latest Contributions by NathanHeickLACSD

I wanted to add to this topic.  I was having similar behavior. What I found was that I was using the etc/hosts file while migrating to a new server to map our production server alias to the local server.  Initially, I entered the following: #.#.#.#  alias.domain.com It worked for a lot of things like setting up the web adaptor.  It didn't work once I got to setting up IWA.  While troubleshooting, I tried using the machine name instead of the alias and IWA worked.  So, I then tried modifying the etc/hosts file as follows: #.#.#.#  machinename.domain.com  alias.domain.com I'm not well-trained in networking so I don't know why leaving the machine name out of the entry caused an issue.  I do know it fixed my problem. ... View more

I would prefer Esri tried to get ArcGIS Pro to work on par with other Windows products. ... View more

Thank you Reese.  That's the feeling I got.  Doable if you really understand the internals of the software, but risky if you don't. ... View more

I left the SSL certificate in place with no problem.  What I'm interested in knowing is if the server will use the self-signed certificate if the CA certificate expires. ... View more

I'm not having this exact same error message, but the message says something about unauthorized access even though I too am an administrator.  It's only on some hosted feature services.  I never had any issue with other item types. Did you ever figure this one out?  I really want to use clone_items, but I have run into about three edge cases where cloning hosted feature services chokes. ... View more

I will perform a test server installation and restore today.  I read more forum posts last night and came to the same conclusion as @JonathanEpstein.  The main purpose of the etc/hosts file seems to be to accomplish the requirement that the source and target systems of the backup have the same public portal and server URLs.  That seems more like a webgisdr requirement for it to work. Reading that blog that @A_Wyn_Jones referred to, which was the impetus for my question, I was mainly concerned about the section where it said: 3. Before you install any software on the new machine, update its etc\hosts file to resolve the IP address of the new machine to newmachine.domain.local as well as enterprise.domain.com: 10.0.0.2 newmachine.domain.local enterprise.domain.com Listing the local hostname into the etc\hosts file first ensures that the software will store that name in configuration files, rather than the DNS alias. Adding the DNS alias ensures the deployment can be configured with the DNS alias without impacting production. I was worried about how setting up your etc/hosts file impacts the URLs stored in the Portal, Server, and Data Store configs.  The blog covers two cases, namely using a backup that used machine names and one that used aliases.  Our source backup uses machine names but I want to set up the new server with aliases.  I succeeded in doing that on a new 10.9.1 installation but I want to move from a backup based on machine names to a server based on aliases. It seems the installation software uses the left-most entry when it wants to store a domain name in the AGE configs.  I learned how the etc/hosts file doesn't support C name records like a DNS server, so maybe everything to the right resolves to the same IP address but the first domain name is the one it uses when it wants to store a domain name over an IP address. No matter what, though, I am seeing that the public URLs have to match the source to be able to run the backup, but I want to end with different public URLs when I am finished..  I think I can set up Portal, Server, and the DataStore with the aliases I want but use the etc/hosts file and the source public URLs to set up the web adaptors.  Then, after the restore, I will attempt to uninstall and reinstall the web adaptors using the aliases I want to use.  Hopefully, this will do the trick. My main concern is just understanding the mechanics.  I don't quite understand how the left most domain name in the etc/hosts file gets used.  I understand how the public URLs have to match.  I have some experience installing 10.9.1 using aliases.  I just worry about what internal URLs I might end up with inside the ArcGIS Enterprise configs. With regards to the content, I definitely will be doing some scripting to update item URLs and URLs in item data.  That's partially why we want our new installation to use aliases.  We want to get away from the machine names. Thanks for your help, Nathan   ... View more

Hi Jonathan, Could you expand on the registered data stores have to be identical?  Do we have to use the exact same name?  Sometimes our data stores were registered in different places like Server Manager, ArcMap, and ArcGIS Pro.  I just want to make sure I know how identical they have to be.  Is it just a matter of making sure the data stores can validate or is it looking for everything to be exactly the same? ... View more

Hi Jack, Have you found a solution to this problem?  I too am trying to clone hosted feature services and some behave differently than others.  I get the list index out of range issue and an authorization error even though I am admin.  It really files like you have to have a complete understanding of feature services in general or try to tackle a small subset of well-behaved ones versus all of them when using the clone_items method. Also, I was not passing in an invalid index either. Thanks, Nathan ... View more