Latest Contributions by ClintonBallandis1

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what is the best practice for remote editing of data held in Enterprise Geodatabases. Since Covid we've had a greater demand from our Technicians to work from home. These technicians are currently using a VPN to access our orgainsation's on premise data and edit via SDE Connections. Our Enterprise Geodatabases are versioned with the option to move edits to base.  We are implementing a completely new GIS environment Enterprise 10.8.1 or possibly 10.9.1 SQL Server 2019 and have the opportunity to implement new editing processes. From the documentation it looks like branched versioning and editing via a feature service is now the recommend process. Potentially if we added these editable feature services to our external facing Portal then any of our Technicians could edit remotely in any location and on any device. I'm assuming that editing a feature service will also be more light weight and offer better performance? My main concern with this approach is security. We would have our key datasets exposed to the internet via feature services. While I understand that once a branched version dataset is published as a feature service security is handle by Portal this still doesn't seems like a best practice? Would we be creating exposure to our internal networks? Is anyone else editing corporate data via branched versioned feature services on an external facing Portal ? Any help would be appreciated Thanks Clinton          ... View more

Hi, I've written a Notebook that backups up our AGOL hosted feature services to File Geodatabases. I'm using the new tasks feature in AGOL to schedule the backups everyday. The notebook calls the item.export method and everything works well under my default administrator role. I'd like to create a new custom role in AGOL that can be used specifically to run the backups. I was hoping to give this role enough privileges to run the script without having full administrative rights.  However I can't seem to give the custom role enough permissions. I'm getting the following error: You do not have permissions to access this resource or perform this operation. (Error Code: 403) Question: Can you only run item.export from a default  administrator account or am I missing something in configuring the custom role? It seems strange that I can create a custom role with full rights to add and delete organizational members and edit update delete data but I cant set one up to do an export ?  Thanks, Clinton  ... View more

Hi, Has anyone got a Python script that they are willing to share that only backs up hosted feature layers for either an AGOL organization or ArcGIS Enterprise Deployment. I'm only interested in backing up content that our users have created rather than any referenced feature services as these dataset are backed up via enterprise backups.  I'm trying to remove the issue where users create hosted feature layers and rely on the data without taking manual backups. These users are unaware that AGOL hosted data can't be recovered or that you can't restore a datastore to get one hosted feature layer back.    I've looked at running a notebook however we only have enterprise 10.7.1 so I can't see an easy way of scheduling this task either. Any help would be appreciated Thanks, Clinton ... View more

Hi, I've recently installed ArcGIS Monitor 10.7.1 and I'm now receiving quite a few email alerts at times when we are: 1) Running the Webgisdr Tool (on Enterprise 10.7.1) 2) Performing Enterprise Geodatabase Maintenance (Compress, Rebuild Indexes, Analyze Datasets on SQL Server) These above process are all scheduled to occur and night. What I'm trying to avoid is ArcGIS Monitor sending me severe or critical warnings that are related to these backups, enterprise gdb maintenance while the alerts are valid they aren't required. I thinking that these alerts are happening because we don't stop our map / feature services before performing the above processes? Backups using the webgisdr tool start at 11pm, severe warming occurs at 11.02pm Enterprise Geodatabase Maintenance begins at 1.00 am and I get alters from the services saying that they cant access the  DBMS server What is the recommended procedure? Should we stop all of our services first ? what are other organizations doing ?  Any help would be appreciated, Thanks, Clinton ... View more

Hi all, Our IT Infrastructure team regularly apply windows patches to to our production ArcGIS enterprise 10.7.1 servers. Theses servers are running Windows Server 2012 R2 and are virtual. While ArcGIS Enterprise reboots successfully after the patching we're noticing that several of our map services aren't functioning correctly (not drawing or processing requests) after the reboot even though their service status is 'started' in server manager. If we subsequently restart the service manually then functionality is restored. I'm just wondering if there is a service refresh process we should be applying after the patching? Is there a way to identify services that aren't functioning correctly even though they appear to be 'started'?  Thanks, Clinton ... View more

Hi, I have an environment with three ArcGIS 10.7.1 enterprise deployments that I'm looking to use ArcGIS monitor with. The deployments are as follows: 1) Internal Production ArcGIS Enterprise base deployment used by organisation staff only -  hosted on a local network behind a firewall. 2) Internal Test / Dev  ArcGIS enterprise base deployment hosted on local network behind a firewall 3) External facing Production base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment used to share content with the public. The Portal Server, ArcGIS Server and Datastore Server all all on the local network behind the firewall with the corresponding  web adaptors in a DMZ. I'm wanting to know if I can use a centralized ArcGIS Monitor deployment installed on a single machine on the local network and still be able to monitor the External Facing ArcGIS enterprise components out in the DMZ as per the simplified architecture diagram below?  Any help would be appreciated Andrew Sakowicz  Evan Mosby Thanks, Clinton ... View more