Latest Contributions by JonSwoveland

‎11-04-2021

Not specifically log-related, but the one suggestion I can make is to actively monitor available drive space on all machines participating in your ArcGIS Enterprise Deployment. I've seen several production systems go down because the default ArcGIS Enterprise backup settings fill the system drive with backups. First thing I do now after deploying Enterprise is disable the default backups and configure the WebgisDR util.

‎08-25-2021

Good you found this before it fills up the drive and corrupts you installation. I've seen that happen now in at least 5 instances. DataStore has its own automatic backup utility, which is ON by default and slowly fills the drive DataStore is installed to. If this happens to be the system drive...well, bad things happen. I suspect this is what is happening in your case. As soon as I finish installing DataStore I disable the auto backup, then configure webgisdr (I'm about 99% certain webgisdr calls the same backup utility, btw). I really wish Esri would disable this by default, or at least have an option in the installer, so people are aware this is happening. The following page has more information about this. https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/10.8/administer/windows/data-store-backups.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_EF539D3A928E40EA833279AB621905A6 Hope this helps.

‎08-23-2021

Hi, I've got a stand-alone Portal installed in a test environment to use for content management. I have not installed a WebAdapator because we don't have the need for one in this deployment. The problem we're running into is the portalHostName property returned from the /self endpoint includes the port 7080, not 7443. The Portal is configured to allow traffic over HTTPS only. I've tried setting the WebContextUrl to https://......:7443/arcgis but this made no difference. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this? Thanks!

‎07-20-2021

I subscribed to this thread in hopes someone from esri would respond. It would be really, really nice if Portal supported multiple allowed redirects in such cases. I get a significant number of clients that want to access their arcgis server via multiple DNS aliases. Most commonly, this is for supporting both internal and external hostnames.

‎06-28-2021

Hi Mehretab, The short answer, to the best of my knowledge, is yes. The WebContextURL property must be set if the url to the portal's native endpoint (i.e. https:<portal host>:7443) is different than that of the Web Adaptor. AFAIK, this must be set regardless of using the Web Adapter or other proxy (or both). I believe one of the functions of the WebContextURL property is to specify the allowed referrer url for authentication purposes (so Portal will trust referrers from the Web Adapator/proxy). It would be really nice if Esri made it possible to specify multiple referrers, as they do for web apps. I'd be interested to see Esri respond to your question, perhaps they can provide more... context.

‎06-23-2021

Thank you, Jonathan, for the detailed explanation! I suspected the WA url was stored in each item's url. Too bad those aren't resolved at runtime. Cheers, Jon

‎06-18-2021

Thank-you for your technical (and emotional) support, Brain! I'll poke around those config files you mentioned. I'm tempted to setup a test environment (oh, dang, I don't think I can because I don't have any available dev licenses for ArcGIS Server). Sorry to bring Esri licensing up on a Friday (or any day, for that matter) ;)

‎06-18-2021

ArcGIS Server's administrative endpoint (:6443/arcgic/admin) presents two ways of authenticating. The first is a username and password, the second is with a token obtained from Portal. The username and password ARE NOT credentials of a Portal Identity. Only an ArcGIS Server user will work here. The problem that I've run into with the builder apps, is they don't create an ArcGIS Server PSA (Primary Server Admin) user account (or they do, but it's secret). Fret not, there is a solution! The solution is to use ArcGIS Server's command line passwordreset tool to reset the PSA account password. This tool also has an option to display the PSA's username. This is (just) one of the reason's I've given up using any of the builder apps. In my experience, they've been more trouble than they're worth. If you're new to deploying Enterprise, I'd encourage you to also read up on Enterprise's default backup mechanisms, as well as how to configure the WebGISDR utility. I don't know if Esri has made any changes in their later releases, but I've seen multiple deployments fail because, by default, ArcGIS Enterprise does automated Data Store backups without regard to available drive space. Ultimately this leads to a full drive and possibly a corrupted Portal and/or database. It's bad.

‎06-18-2021

Hello all, This is something that has been a mystery to me for a while and has led to complications with several ArcGIS Enterprise deployments I have led. There are two parts to my question: How does ArcGIS Web Adapter "know" what it's own URL is? Is there a way to reconfigure this URL? I should clarify, the above questions are specific to a Web Adapter (WA from here on) registered with a Federated ArcGIS Server. Re the first question, when installing and registering WA, there's no way to specify the hostname/FQHN to the WA. I assume the registration routine looks at the IIS settings and decides for itself what to use, but I've run into the situation where, after federating an ArcGIS Server, the WA's URL (as registered in Portal) is not as desired. Most commonly, this is a case of the URL using only the machine hostname instead of the FQHN. Re the second question, there does not seem to be any way, short of unfederating and refederating, to reconfigure a federated ArcGIS Server WA's URL in Portal. I need to move an internal ArcGIS Server's WA to a public-facing DMZ and reconfigure it to use a publically available FQHN. Seems crazy that I would have to unfederate / refederate the ArcGIS Server to simply reconfigure a setting in Portal. If this server had many hosted feature services, those all become orphaned when unfederating the server. Thanks for any insight!

‎02-19-2021

Thanks Henry. I should have clarified this IS for a multi-tier deployment, so that helps.

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