With the move to virtualisation and especially cloud its very easy to change the specification of your ArcGIS Server – increase cores, memory etc. While updating some tiles on a cache service the other day I noticed the number of caching service instances was set to 3 which was odd considering the AWS instance had 8 cores (originally it was 2 cores). Continue Reading
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After what seems like ages (over a year in fact) the Esri Professional Services team have released an update to System Designer. There are a bunch of fixes, updated hardware (including Amazon M4 series) and finally we have models for Portal (10.2 though).
Go get it; https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8ff490eef2794f428bde25b561226bda
Esri Professional Services have just released a new tool called “System Log Parser”. The tool reads the log files of your ArcGIS for Server and produces a nice Excel spreadsheet with statistics and charts,
So earlier this week a customer called to say they were seeing high CPU usage caused by an update to their corporate website which now included embedded maps on almost every page. The additional load was obviously causing high CPU usage so they naturally scaled the server up. However after restarting the server with the improved specifications ArcGIS Server would hog the available CPU and eventually crash. Continue Reading
My lightning talk at the 2015 Dev Summit got cut short today! Here is the link to the spreadsheet I was talking about;
- http://bit.ly/1C29JM0 (Excel)
- http://bit.ly/1wkwI2m (Google Docs)
And here is a link to the slide deck; http://bit.ly/1C3pEK8
In an ever increasing virtualised world it is easy to scale a server specification (Cores, RAM) up or down. Recently we changed the spec of a clients Amazon machine and noticed that Esri System Monitor suddenly stopped collecting statistics.
Yesterday I found out the hard way that apparently since 10.1 you cannot publish a map service that has editor tracking enabled with database time zone. You will receive error 00129 stating that the map cannot contain layers that have editor tracking turned on using database time. Continue Reading
I’m currently working on a large data model. I use a combination of ArcGIS Diagrammer to do the modelling and then use Python to apply any bulk changes to common fields. Diagrammer isn’t aware of Editor Tracking so I have a Python script which goes through the geodatabase and applies editor tracking to the relevant fields. I then imported this XML schema back into Diagrammer for further changes. Continue Reading
ArcGIS Servers built-in user store is great. It’s simple and does the job. One thing which I find lacking is the ability for accounts to be locked out after several failed attempts. Continue Reading
There seem to be some issues with the field named “user” and 10.2.x.
Ive updated the SQLLog code to work correctly with ArcGIS Desktop 10.2.x. The latest code is on GitHub.