Latest Contributions by MichaelSchoelen

‎02-28-2019

Has there been any progress on Ansible deployment for ArcGIS Enterprise? I love Chef, but Ansible is becoming more popular--I'd rather not have to set up a new configuration management tool for clients who don't have Chef. Ansible overtakes Chef and Puppet as the top cloud configuration management tool - TechRepublic

‎01-27-2019

Difficult to pin down what worked, but the following actions resolved the error: In IIS, stop and restart the Web Adaptor App Pool Run IISRESET as Admin in command prompt Run the ArcGIS Server Service Account update wizard on all server machines

‎01-27-2019

When publishing new services or launching Insights for ArcGIS in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.1, we get the error below: Unable to process request. Could not initialize class com.esri.arcgis.discovery.security.manager.WebSecurityManager This error message presented itself following a reboot of the servers for an unrelated reason. Any insight? Mike

‎01-21-2019

I am working on a map for a client, and they would like to use the Topographic basemap for their web app. Unfortunately, we discovered a major error with the street layer, so our ground-truth data does not align with it. OpenStreetMap is correct, however. We reported the error in the Esri basemap group a few months ago, but the status has stayed as "Planned for Future Update" since 11/30/18. Can Esri please inform on when they release basemap changes, so I can provide a timeline to my client? Otherwise, we can work with a different basemap.

‎01-16-2019

Is this something that can be reevaluated for ArcGIS Online? There is still no option to change the default text in the invitation emails. arcgis-online‌ portal for arcgis 10.6.1‌

‎01-15-2019

I'm following up on this chain. Is there no way to set the default organizational email that is set up when a new user is invited? It can be changed manually each time we add a new member, but that can be a lot of repetitive work.

‎01-07-2019

Currently our IT shop is migrating data centers. Our current data center (C1) has all machines running Window Server 2008 R2, and the new center (C2) has all machines running Windows Server 2016. Soon, we will have to migrate our ArcGIS Enterprise from one center to another. Which of these (if any) methods is best? Have them set up the 2016 server images at (C2). We will install the software. Then using the join machine migration method, we link the machines together, then unlink the original (C1) machine. Concern: Can you join a 2008 R2 machine with a 2016 machine? I've seen 2012 and 2016 machines joined before. Run the windows upgrade on the original machine (C1). Then our data center team, using VM tools, can clone it in-state to the new data center (C2). Concern: Upgrading OS from 2008 R2 to 2016 is a big jump. I'm concerned that this upgrade will break ArcGIS. Have them set up the 2016 server images at (C2). We will install the software. Then using WEBGISDR, we will migrate all of the content. Concern: Can you use WEBGISDR between a 2008 R2 machine to a 2016 machine, even if the configurations are identical?

‎12-06-2018

That did the trick. As always, thanks Jonathan Quinn‌!!!

‎12-06-2018

Yep, High Availability, and we recently had a failover event. Can you elaborate on the path to get that Json response? …/server/admin > data > items > /enterpriseDatabases > …. ? Or somewhere else?

‎12-06-2018

Everything in our portal appears to be running fine (we can publish hosted feature services and apps), however Insights for ArcGIS suddenly started showing the message "Something Went Wrong" when creating a new workbook. Also getting an error message in Server Manager logs for "Failed to create data source..... NullPointerException" Any ideas?

‎11-30-2018

It was added pre-upgrade. We have that in place to allow WEBGISDR to run in a disconnected environment. That makes sense--is there a way to comment out that line in the hosts file then re-run the upgrade procedure?

‎11-30-2018

We followed these steps: Uninstall 10.5.1 Portal Web Adaptors (success) Run 10.6.1 Portal installer on standby machine (success) Authorize standby (success) Run Portal installer on primary (success) Authorize (success) Run Continue upgrade on Primary (It said it was successful) Attempted upgrade on the standby (error) So this is in our standby environment, so we have a modified etc/hosts file that is named "domain.com"-- I wonder if that was the problem.

‎11-29-2018

When upgrading a highly available portal in our disaster recovery environment, we installed 10.6.1 on both portals successfully. Then on the primary machine, we hit the Complete Upgrade button, which was also successful. Now we are seeing that the standby machine did not complete the post-upgrade steps. Hitting upgrade on the standby machine shows this message (domain.com covers our actual domain): "Upgrade failed. You can only upgrade the primary portal machine domain.com when portal is in a highly available configuration." Interesting that it say our load balancer DNS "domain.com" rather than the primary machine name. Is there a way to force the standby upgrade to complete?

‎11-26-2018

We found the solution in a blog post from 2015 from Esri UK: We have found that if Portal for ArcGIS is installed on a machine that has more than one network adaptor set up, users can experience performance issues. The problem is isolated to slow running requests going to Portal's PostgreSQL database. This can be checked using your browser's development tools. To check if this issue affects your Portal for ArcGIS site, log in to the site and browse to 'My Content' whilst using the browser's network trace tools. Look through the network calls that are being made and find the one that includes a token in the request. For example: http://<machine name>/arcgis/sharing/rest/portals/self?culture=en&f=json&token=<token> Copy this link into a new browser tab and monitor the request time. If the request takes more than a few seconds then try the workflow below. Browse to your network adaptors by typing 'Network and Sharing Center' and clicking on 'Change adaptor settings' If more than one network adaptor is displayed, right click the primary adaptor and select 'Properties' Select 'Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and select 'Properties' and click 'Advanced' Untick 'Automatic metric' and enter '1' for the 'Interface metric' Select the Gateway under 'Default gateways' and select 'Edit' Untick 'Automatic metric' if ticked on and enter '1' as the Metric value Setting the metric value gives the primary network adaptor priority over the other network adaptors. Browse through your Portal for ArcGIS site and see if this improves the response times.

‎11-26-2018

After upgrading from Portal for ArcGIS 10.5.1 to 10.6.1 on Windows Server 2012 R2, we noticed significant performance delays when using Portal. Loads were taking almost 5x the expected time. This is a high-availability "single machine" deployment, and only Portal was experiencing issues, meaning accessing the server admin site was a breeze with no problems. Re-indexing, installation repairs, dropping to a single machine, and adding resources did not help. There are no apparent log issues.

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Latest Contributions by MichaelSchoelen

Re: Anyone used ansible instead of chef?

Re: Unable to publish services (WebSecurityManager)

Unable to publish services (WebSecurityManager)

Reporting errors on Esri basemaps

Re: Possibility to modify default text in subject of invitation-email

Re: ArcGIS Online default email

Migration from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2016

Re: Insights for ArcGIS Something Went Wrong

Re: Insights for ArcGIS Something Went Wrong

Insights for ArcGIS Something Went Wrong

Re: Primary portal machine post-upgrade successful, standby fails (10.6.1)

Re: Primary portal machine post-upgrade successful, standby fails (10.6.1)

Primary portal machine post-upgrade successful, standby fails (10.6.1)

Re: Portal for ArcGIS 10.6.1 slow after upgrade and troubleshooting

Portal for ArcGIS 10.6.1 slow after upgrade and troubleshooting

Updating the favicon for Portal for ArcGIS

Re: Portal Log-In Timeout?

healthCheck in ArcGIS Python API

Re: Label exists filter widget

Re: An insecure item from ArcGIS Portal's Server U...

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