Administering ArcGIS for Server

Hussein Nasser

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781782177364
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Development
• Edition: 1

In Detail

ArcGIS for Server is a new technology that has been developed to bring geographically-enabled information from multiple sources into one single platform and make it available for sharing services. Server supports many types of services, and the beauty of this technology is that it has an edge over other products, as the source of information can be directly plugged into Server without the need to change or migrate the existing infrastructure.

Administering ArcGIS for Server teaches you the mechanics of ArcGIS for Server, equipping you with the skills to not only install and configure Server, but to do it efficiently to achieve effective results. You will also learn how to plan, analyze, design, and finally publish and consume GIS services from various platforms including mobile and tablets.

We start by installing Server and authoring and consuming GIS services. We then move on to planning services before showing you how to optimize, secure, and debug them.

One of the hot topics in this book is the optimizing of GIS services, which will help you manage resources efficiently. You will also learn how to apply multiple security mechanisms on ArcGIS for Server and safely expose the services to the public in a secure manner.

Administering ArcGIS for Server will help you prepare a robust Server infrastructure for your organization.

Approach

This book is a practical, step-by-step tutorial providing a complete reference guide to the setup, installation, and administration of ArcGIS Server technology.

Who this book is for

If you are a GIS user, analyst, DBA, or programmer with a basic knowledge of ESRI GIS, then this book is for you.

Administering ArcGIS for Server

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Table of Contents

Administering ArcGIS for Server

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Instant Updates on New Packt Books

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Best Practices for Installing ArcGIS for Server

Installation tracks

Testing Installation Track

Production Installation Track

Virtualized Environment Installation Track

The anatomy of the Server site

Server site components

Web server

GIS server

Server site management

Services

Machines

Output directories

Configuration stores

Clusters

Data stores

Extensions

Logfiles

Testing Installation Track

Server requirements

System requirements

Recommended for production

Recommended for education, testing, and demo

Hardware requirements

Software installation

Configuring Server site

Production Installation Track

Server requirements

System requirements

Hardware requirements

Software installation

Active Directory configuration

GIS server installation

Master GIS server installation

Configuring Server site

Secondary GIS server installation

Configuring a secondary GIS server

Web server installation

Configuring the end user Web Adaptor

Configuring the administrator Web Adaptor

Virtualized Environment Installation Track

Installing Oracle Virtual Box

Adding a new virtual machine

Cloning a virtual machine

Summary

2. Authoring Web Services

The classical web service

Creating a classical web service

Enabling ASP on IIS

Writing the web service using ASP

Web services' protocols

The importance of a standard format

SOAP

REST

The Web server

GIS services

Map services

Connecting to the Server site

Disabling automatic data copying

Authoring map services with file geodatabase

Registering the data source

Registering a folder

Registering with an enterprise geodatabase

Authoring map service with enterprise geodatabase

Offline authoring and publishing

Protocols enabled for map services

OGC services

Authoring WMS services

Authoring WFS services

Geoprocessing services

Testing the GIS services

Summary

3. Consuming GIS Services

Before you start

Getting the map service URL

Publishing the utility map service

Using GIS services for visualization

Consuming services from the GIS software

Using ArcMap

Using QGIS

Using Google Earth

Consuming services from APIs

Winter is coming – the Flex and Silverlight APIs

Using the ArcGIS JavaScript API

Online mode

Offline mode

Using GIS services for editing

Prerequisites

Setting up the SDE geodatabase

Connecting and registering the SDE geodatabase

Publishing a feature service

Editing feature services using ArcMap

Using GIS services for analysis

Prerequisites

Finding the outage cause – scenario 1

Finding the outage cause – scenario 2

Meanwhile, on the GIS servers

Summary

4. Planning and Designing GIS Services

Case study of Bestaurants – the restaurants locator in Belize

Planning GIS services

Analyzing requirements

Nominating GIS services

Option 1 – single service

Option 2 – multiple services

Designing GIS services

Database design

The Entity-relationship diagram

Optimizing using the database indexing

GIS services design

Option 1 – single map service

Option 2 – multiple map services

Single or multiple service designs

Deploying GIS services

Enabling geodatabase

Adding a world basemap

Authoring GIS services

Summary

5. Optimizing GIS Services

GIS service instance

Pooling

The anatomy of pooling

Configuring pooled services

Process isolation

High-isolation configuration

Low-isolation configuration

Configuring process isolation

Recycling and health check

Caching

Summary

6. Clustering and Load Balancing

Clustering

Creating clusters

Adding machines to the default cluster

Grouping machines by resources

Mapping GIS services to a cluster

Mapping a simple map service

Mapping a cached map service

Mapping a high-affinity map service

Mapping a geoprocessing service

Scaling clusters

Limitations

Summary

7. Securing ArcGIS for Server

User and role stores

GIS server tier – ArcGIS token security

Enabling the ArcGIS token security

Adding new users and roles

Enabling security on GIS services

Connecting to a secured service

Shared key security

Web-tier – Web server security

Enabling Web Security

Configuring IIS

Adding new users and roles

Enabling security on GIS services

Connecting to a secured service

ArcGIS for Server Manager distilled

Creating users and roles

Testing access control

The administrator directory

Disabling the primary administrator account

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)

Summary

8. Server Logs

Logging levels

Log analysis

Exercise – finding the bottleneck

The logfile

Analysis and findings

Clearing Server logs

Summary

A. Selecting the Right Hardware

Licensing – more machines or more power

Choosing the number of cores

Choosing the size of memory

Summary

B. Server Architecture

The rise of ArcGIS Server

Server architecture 9.x-10.0

SOM and SOC

Web server

DCOM

Benefits of a 64-bit architecture

Summary

Index

Administering ArcGIS for Server

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