Latest Contributions by JonathanQuinn

Server supports multiple web adaptors, but Portal can only support multiple web adaptors if the Web Context URL is set. You can't change the URL of a base deployment, though, so the URL to the new web adaptor, (https://webadaptor.domain.com/portal/webadaptor), has to be the same as the old one. You can achieve this using an etc\hosts entry, which is covered a bit in a different migration blog using the DR tool: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-enterprise/administration/migrate-to-a-new-machine-in-arcgis-enterprise-two/ If you have an existing web adaptor and register another one that uses the same URL, (again, using an etc\hosts entry for local hostname resolution), it will just overwrite the existing web adaptor that Portal knows about. If it's a different URL and the Web Context URL isn't set, you'll get an error. ... View more

At 10.7, Server is set to HTTPS Only by default: https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/administer/windows/secure-arcgis-server-communication.htm Prior to 10.7, it's configured to be HTTP and HTTPS. Server has moved to a more secure environment by default. ... View more

When you're working with certificates and Python, I think there are three options: 1) Use a certificate from a trusted root certificate authority, (Digicert, Verisign, etc), that Python trusts by default 2) Configure Python to trust your certificates 3) Disable certificate verification If you don't want to disable certificate verification, then you need to make sure you're following either 1 or 2, and then as Michael Volz‌ suggested, comment line 20 and 27 but also be sure to remove context=sslContext from lines 22 and 29. ... View more

You can try to use the Workspace iterator to iterate through all shapefiles. This gives you two variables, the name and actual feature class object: Then use Add Field to add the "GISfilename" field to each shapefile and Calculate Field to calculate the Name value within the new field using inline variable substitution: The Calculate Field will bring in the %Name% variable when it runs: After all that's done, you can use the Merge or Append tools to combine all datasets. You can either run Append at the end, or you need to create a separate model to embed the one with your iterator. ... View more

If the backup is in S3 or Azure BLOB, then the BACKUP_STORE_PROVIDER will be set to the respective value (AmazonS3 or AzureBLOB), but the restore process still needs a share for the SHARED_LOCATION property. The DR tool will pull the backup down from the cloud storage, unzip it into the SHARED_LOCATION path, and then run restores passing in the path for the backups within the SHARED_LOCATION to each component. In terms of the second paragraph, we should probably get rid of the word "domain" and just say the "the account used to run the Portal, Server, and Data Store services needs to have access to the SHARED_LOCATION path". ... View more

Are you on a one core machine? If so, The internal index service will fail to start: BUG-000122935 - Unable to create a site or initial administrator account for Portal for ArcGIS 10.7 on a single core machine. If you have more than one core, take a look at the logs under C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Portal\framework\runtime\ds\usr\logs\<machine>\elasticlog ... View more

The home application, (https://portal.domain.com/portal/home), will attempt to reach portaladmin to determine whether it should display the create site/join site page, upgrade, or a sign in page. It seems like the home application isn't handling the 500 response code well. The portaladmin endpoint is also used by the home application to display licensing information, (if you're signed in as an administrator), so that's why there's no concept of "disabling admin access" as there is for Server Web Adaptor or Server deployments. The first point obviously causes a problem for non-admins, but the second could be an additional issue for admins. Unfortunately I can't speak to the security aspects of disabling portaladmin access but I think disabling that access is going to be problematic, as the home app does expect certain responses from that endpoint, (whether that's correct or incorrect is another good question). ... View more

No problem! It's called Process Monitor, or ProcMon: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon Super useful for troubleshooting Enterprise problems. A couple tips: 1) Set filters. Procmon can record a significant amount of information. Setting filters gives you exactly what you need.     2) Drop filtered events. Even if you have a filter, ProcMon is still logging all traffic on the machine. By dropping filtered events, you only capture what you want based on the filter and makes the log more manageable 3) Use a backing file if you need to capture lots of traffic. Instead of saving to memory, you can save to disk. If you need to write to disk because you're running out of memory in the log, then querying/managing the log will become challenging but it's an option. ... View more

If you click "Retry", what happens? I've seen this as well but "Retry" should allow it to continue. ... View more

This certainly seems to be a bug, but it's in the export operation within Server, not necessarily the DR tool. If you tried to export directly in the Server Admin API, I imagine you'd see the same error? I'll give this a try here and see what happens. ... View more

If a service isn't started but is accessed via an application, I don't see that much in the network traffic, and nothing in the console: Do you have min instances set to 0 for that service? Does that path actually exist? I'd reach out to tech support to discuss a repro case and get something logged. Any error that returns internal machine names or paths should be updated. ... View more

Data Store shouldn't store the PSA credentials as Server supports those credentials changing. It should establish a trust between itself and the Server. I think it's best to reach out to Support and describe the behavior to see if they can reproduce it. ... View more

The indices don't automatically turn themselves to read/write if you clear up disk space. Either rebuild it using the steps in the first comment or reach out to Tech Support so you can walk through the steps with them. ... View more