Latest Contributions by cdickerson

Working with Site Scan and consuming content that is published as a web service for reference, it would be handy to have the ability to snap to the extents of a polygon. This could be an easy way to assist with flight planning from an office setting. I recently put together an application that allowed users within my organization to input locations where they need drone flights taken. Almost all of the sites and projects that have been submitted are for 2D area surveys. User submits a polygon in the application (either desktop or mobile app), I use that in Site Scan to construct my flight area. Seems simple, but I think integrating and providing a way to select a polygon and automatically generate that project area would be slick or the ability to snap to the polygon extents of what use.  This might be a way to bridge the gap for desktop flight planning.  Scenarios or tools for enhancements 1. Ability to snap to displayed enterprise features in Site Scan 2. Ability to select a displayed enterprise feature in Site Scan and auto generate polygon for flight area 3. Larger projects, similar to #2 but auto generate polygons for flight area but the ability to split the project area into sections.  ... View more

Hi All, I have a dilemma I am facing with our ArcGIS Enterprise configuration on AWS. First, I will describe our system to give context to the issue. Note our system is fully up and running and we are not experiencing any issues at the moment.  Most of what I will be discussing are issues or questions that came up when planning for system outages and recovery plan, and deploying a development environment for testing system upgrades.  Any questions for this thread will be listed at the end of the tread, I reference these questions with *Q# for context in the discussion. System Config We have a GIS Enterprise system (ArcGIS 10.6.1) fully in the AWS Cloud. In our system we have two servers that drive the use of our multi-machine deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise. First, a GIS Server with ArcGIS Server, Portal for ArcGIS, and Data store software along with both Web Adaptors and second, Image Server with ArcGIS Server software. The last time our SSL Certificate expired, in the attempt to save a little bit of money we stood up a Application Load Balancer (ALB) in front of our servers that handled secure routing of traffic to our servers.  Load Balancers in AWS can host the SSL certificates but these certificates cannot be installed on the instances (servers) themselves. Through the use of an ALB, our DNSs switched from being associated with an elastic IP to the ALB (*Q1). This changed the way that ArcGIS Server and Protal allowed us to configure the Web Adaptors. Instead of being able to configure the Web Adaptors with the DNS ( https://gisserver.domain.com:6443),   it changed how our systems communicate with each other and we had to configure the Web Adaptors to use the private IP (https://10.x.x.x:6443) and federate our servers in Portal the same way (*Q2). Through these nuances of configuration we have a relatively stable GIS enviornment.    Development Environment Deployment From the system detailed above, we took images of our two servers in AWS and deployed them in the separate Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for testing. We replicated security groups, launched a load balancer for those servers, and ensured all the components of what is needed to operate our GIS system were present and account for. These servers had their own variants of the DNSs that we were looking to reconfigure for the dev system. We ran into some hurdles with ArcGIS Server and ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the software (preserving the config-store and directories folders). We were able to create a new GIS site for server manager but unable to recreate the site from an existing one using the preserved folders.  We were unsure if the issue was because of the DNS change or differences in the admin passwords I chose to use (*Q3). We ended up doing the same thing form Portal and Data store and we now have a replicated system with no content but it is successfully running ArcGIS Enterprise. Additionally, we were able to reconfigure our Image server without losing content (I do believe the same admin account password was preserved). WebGISDr Tool Both within our production and development environments we were able to use the WebGISDr Tool to export full backups of our Enterprise to AWS.  Within development we were able to import a backup successfully after exporting it. We however have been unable to migrate data/content from our production environment to dev with the tool.  I have been told that as long as my DNS's match I should be able to import a back up generated from our production environment and use it in development (*Q4). Other than some minor differences (admin account password being different) in our prod and dev systems the one attempt at doing this led to the tool failing once it got to the data store. Looking to understand if this failure is something others have seen or if it is a nuance of our particular configuration or of our system stemming back to the way we have our ALB configured.  That said, here are my questions: * Q1 - Most traditional deployment models have the SSL Certificate installed on the servers themselves. Has anyone experienced any issues managing their SSL Certificates through Load Balancers? *Q2 - In AWS you have no control over the what the primary private IP will be for a server but you have the ability to assign a secondary private IP. Does any one know if ArcGIS Enterprise can be configured using secondary private IPs? Has anyone ever tried, and could there be unforeseen consequences to doing this? *Q3 - Has anyone recovered the content that was published to ArcGIS Server through replacing the config-store and directories folders? Was it for the same system where the DNS and the admin accounts matched? *Q4 - Has anyone ever successfully imported a backup with the WebGISDr tool, to a different server? Were there any nuances you encountered that you needed to do to get it to work? Thank you in advance. ... View more

Hey folks, I know that QuickCapture is still technically in Beta, but has anyone else attempted to use the application and had success?  I created a quick four button app to use to tag addresses where improper recycling as occurred.  Through some general preliminary testing, we have noticed that some of the points that we have plotted are not fully being captured (Example: we collected five points and only two of them and showed up to be submitted & and likewise for another nine points only 6 showed up to be submitted).  Has anyone else had this issue yet and could this be explained due to the application is still in BETA?  Finally, we attempted to collect up to about 20 points and received an submission error, and nothing was able to be submitted.  Has anyone encountered this and does anyone know if there is a limit on how many points can be collecting before submitting? Thanks in advance. Chris ... View more

Working in either Pro, Drone2Map, or ArcScene; is there a way to clip an SLPK layer that effects the actual data?  Currently, the only way I've been able to clip the feature is with the dataframe but that does not translate to published hosted features in ArcGIS Online or in Portal.   Background: Flew a series of flights with a Mavic Pro and segmented my flights by battery life. The data was processed and the SLPK Mesh features were created in Drone2Map. For performance reasons I would like to process each area separately and publish to either ArcGIS Online or Portal but each captured area has additional renderings that are outside of the area of interest that are not that great of quality.  Looking for a way to segment the areas of interest and assemble a larger project area in a Web Scene. The following screenshot highlight the area of interest within a SLPK. Thanks in advance Chris ... View more