What are some automations you use to manage and administer your ArcGIS Enterprise systems? (SQL/enterprise/governance)
Hi All,
Ive joined an organization that has Enterprise but didn‘t have the resources to manage it. The 11.3 Enterprise is internal facing only and has a non-federated geo-event server (planning on changing this). this was a primarily AGOL facing org, so as there hasn’t been any enterprise admin, I am looking to start right. just as an FYI, esri helped our org set up the enterprise system. I am still unsure why they didn’t federate the geoevent server but also open to conversations about that. additionally we do have a dev portal but the machines aren’t set the same. For example, portal is installed on the c drive and content is pushed to the e drive. Unlike our pros where it’s all on the E drive. this is where I will do my testing for my scripts
the org probably has maybe 3-5 active users. I have previous enterprise administration experience but in an already established org with 10x-20x more active users with two enterprise system. Ive thought about implementing some of the automations I’ve learned from the GIS admin I worked with. I plan on locking down publishing feature services due to the lack of governance for GIS. i do find that SQL managing is also a bit of an issue, as I am not familiar with all the automations the GIS admin I worked with had implemented.
so outside of context, what are some suggestions you guys have or have implemented? i have some thoughts and would like your opinions.
- script to crate a draft, stage, and publish service(s)
- built off the first point write to a table in sql anytime I publish a feature service.
- built off the second point, create a script to index all the items in portal and either create a new table to track items that aren’t layers or just load that also into the feature service table and categorize it accordingly
- script to retire feature services and or any item from portal (still thinking on this for the items from portal)
- built off 4th point write To a table anytime a feature service has been retired
- metadata table and work with our apps team to make an app to search through it so the org can verify what data we have via tags
- script to push new AD accounts into portal if not already there.
these are just some of them. looking forward to your replies!