Server Tools
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Server Tools |
The Server toolbox contains tools to manage ArcGIS Server map and globe caches. It also contains tools that simplify data extraction through the server and facilitate printing from a web application.
Server tools consist of a set of tools, and it will be explained by explaining all the tools as follows:
Caching Toolset:
The Caching toolset creates and manages caches for faster display of map, image, and globe services. The caches consist of pregenerated images that the server can distribute to clients. Tools with Map Server in the name work with map and image services; tools with Globe Server in the name work with globe services:
Convert Map Server Cache Storage Format
Converts the storage of a map or image service cache between the exploded format and the compact format. The tool converts the format in place, meaning it does not make a copy of the existing format of the cache. Instead, it creates the new format of the cache in the same cache folder and deletes the old format.
Make a backup of your cache before running this tool if you think you might want to go back to the old format.
Create Map Server Cache
Creates the tiling scheme and preparatory folders for a map or image service cache. After running this tool, use the Manage Map Server Cache Tiles tool to add tiles to the cache.
Delete Globe Server Cache
Deletes a layer or layers of an existing globe service cache and all tiles in them.
This is a deprecated tool.
Delete Map Server Cache
Deletes an existing map or image service cache, including all associated files on disk.
Parameters have changed for this tool at version 10.1. Models and scripts written prior to 10.1 that use this tool will need to be modified to work in 10.1.
Export Map Server Cache
Exports tiles from a map or an image service cache as a cache dataset or tile package to a folder on disk. The tiles can be imported into other caches, or they can be accessed from ArcGIS Desktop or mobile devices as a raster dataset, independent from their parent service.
Generate Map Server Cache Tiling Scheme
Generates an XML tiling scheme file that defines the scale levels, tile dimensions, and other properties for a map service cache. This tool is useful when creating a tiling scheme to use in multiple caches. You can load the tiling scheme file when you create a cache in ArcGIS Desktop or ArcGIS Server Manager, or you can run Create Map Server Cache and pass in the tiling scheme file as a parameter.
A tiling scheme describes how clients should reference the tiles in a cache and is a mapping between the spatial reference of the source map document and the tiling grid. The tiling grid uses a level of detail (scales), row, and column reference scheme. The scheme also defines the scale levels (levels of detail) at which the cache has tiles, the size of the tiles in pixels, and the screen resolution for which the tiles are intended to be most commonly displayed. A tiling scheme is needed to generate a map cache.
Import Map Server Cache
Imports tiles from a folder on disk into a map or an image service cache.
The source folder can be a child of a registered server cache directory, a folder into which a cache has been previously exported, or a tile package (.tpk).The target service must have the same tiling scheme and the storage format as the source cache.
Manage Globe Server Cache Tiles
Parameters have changed for this tool at version 10.1. Models and scripts written prior to 10.1 that use this tool will need to be modified to work in 10.1.
Creates and updates tiles in an existing globe service cache. This tool is used to create new tiles or to replace missing tiles, overwrite outdated tiles, or add new tiles. All these actions can be defined by rectangular extents or by a polygon feature class. When creating new tiles, you can choose whether to create only empty tiles or re-create all tiles.
This is a deprecated tool.
Manage Map Server Cache Scales
Updates the scale levels in an existing cached map or image service. Use this tool to add new scales or delete existing scales from a cache.
Manage Map Server Cache Status
Manages internal data kept by the server about the built tiles in a map or image service cache.
Manage Map Server Cache Tiles
Creates and updates tiles in an existing web tile layer cache. This tool is used to create new tiles, replace missing tiles, overwrite outdated tiles, and delete tiles.
Upgrade Map Server Cache Storage Format
Upgrades the compact cache storage format of a map or image service (created at 10.2.2 and earlier versions) to take advantage of performance improvements available at 10.3 and later versions.
Beginning at 10.3, the compact cache storage format was improved to increase performance when consuming cached map and image services. Improvements also reduced the number of files created in the cache directory by including the tile index information (.bundlx files) inside the .bundle files. New compact caches created with ArcGIS 10.3 for Server (and later versions) will automatically leverage the performance improvements.
If you upgrade to 10.3 and later versions, your services with compact caches generated in earlier versions will continue to work. You can continue to maintain these caches using the server cache tools.
If you want your existing cache to leverage the performance improvements, upgrade to 10.3 (or later versions) and then upgrade the cache using this tool. Upgrading the cache does not create new tiles; instead, the files are reorganized to be compliant with the improved format.
The improved compact cache storage format is not backwards compatible with earlier versions of ArcGIS. For example, a compact cache created or upgraded using 10.3 (or later versions) cannot be transferred and consumed in 10.2.2 (or earlier versions) of the software. The improved compact cache storage format is always expected to be associated with a service.
Data Extraction Toolset:
The Data Extraction toolset provides four tools to implement advanced clip, zip, and ship tasks as an ArcGIS Server geoprocessing service. General extracting tools, such as those in the Extract toolset and the feature analysis tool Clip, only allow you to extract the subset of a single layer data with the output showing the same data format and spatial reference as the input.
These tools are somewhat limited for those who want to extract data with the flexibility to select multiple layers, output format, and spatial reference
especially over the Internet. The Data Extraction toolset is designed to facilitate such functionality so you can efficiently extract the multiple-layered data with the specified format and spatial reference through the geoprocessing service. Moreover, you can zip the output file and send it
through email, thus making the whole extraction and delivery process more effective:
Extract Data
Extracts selected layers in the specified area of interest to a specific format and spatial reference. The extracted data is then written to a zip file.
This tool is intended primarily for use as part of a geoprocessing service. When using this tool as part of a geoprocessing service, copy the tool into a custom toolbox, edit the model, and reconfigure it as necessary. For step-by-step instructions on how to make, use, and configure a geoprocessing service using this tool, see Geoprocessing service example: Clip And Ship.
Extract Data and Email Task
Extracts the data in the specified layers and area of interest to the selected format and spatial reference, zips the data, and emails it to the specified address. This tool can be used to create a Data Extraction geoprocessing service.
This tool is intended primarily for use as a part of a geoprocessing service. When using this tool as a part of a geoprocessing service, copy the tool into a custom toolbox, edit the model, and reconfigure it as necessary. It is important to note that this tool will not work unless you open and edit the model (as described below) before publishing the model as a service.
Extract Data Task
Extracts the selected layers in the specified area of interest to the selected formats and spatial reference, then returns all the data in a .zip file.
This tool is intended primarily for use as part of a geoprocessing service. When using this tool as part of a geoprocessing service, copy the tool into a custom toolbox, edit the model, and reconfigure it as necessary. For step-by-step instructions on how to make, use, and configure a geoprocessing service using this tool, see Geoprocessing service example: Clip And Ship.
Send Email With Zip File Attachment
Emails a file to an email address using an SMTP email server.
This tool is primarily intended for use as a part of a Clip and Email/Data Extraction geoprocessing service. To this end, this script tool is contained in the Extract Data and Email Task model tool and is primarily intended for use by that model.
Printing Toolset:
The Printing toolset provides tools to facilitate printing from web applications:
Export Web Map
This tool takes the state of a web application (for example, included services, layer visibility settings, and client-side graphics) and returns a printable page layout or basic map of the specified area of interest.
The input for Export Web Map is a piece of text in JavaScript object notation (JSON) format describing the layers, graphics, and other settings in the web map. The JSON must be structured according to the ExportWebMap specification in the ArcGIS Help.
This tool is shipped with ArcGIS Server to support web services for printing, including the preconfigured service named PrintingTools. The ArcGIS web APIs for JavaScript, Flex and Silverlight use the PrintingTools service to generate images for simple map printing.
Get Layout Templates Info
Returns the content of layout templates in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. Map documents (.mxd files) located in a folder are used as layout templates.
Publishing Toolset:
The Publishing toolset provides tools to stage and publish GIS resources. Publishing GIS resources can be accomplished using ArcGIS Desktop:
MXD to Web map
Creates a web map within a portal (Portal for ArcGIS or a local portal) from an MXD (map document). Requires an account that can authenticate with ArcGIS.com or a local portal to publish services and create the web map.
Sign In To Portal
Allows you to sign in to portals. If you are publishing to an ArcGIS Online portal you need to be signed in to ArcGIS Online in order to publish. For those organizations that would like to use ArcGIS Online behind the firewall or in their own private cloud, there is a version that you can install and use on your own computer networks. It is called Portal for ArcGIS.
Signing in to ArcGIS Online or Portal for ArcGIS through ArcGIS Desktop has changed in the ArcGIS Desktop 10.2 release. You may receive Warning 1561 when executing this tool. If you receive this message you cannot use the Sign In To Portal tool to authenticate, but must sign in to ArcGIS Online or Portal by clicking File Sign In. See Signing in to ArcGIS Online in ArcGIS Desktop applications for more information.
Sign Out From Portal
Signs out from the portal that you are currently signed in to. For those organizations that would like to use ArcGIS Online behind the firewall or in their own private cloud, there is a version that you can install and use on your own computer networks. It is called Portal for ArcGIS.
Stage Service
Stages a service definition. A staged service definition (.sd) file contains all the necessary information needed to publish a GIS service, including data that must be copied to the server because it does not appear in the server's data store.
Upload Service Definition
Uploads and publishes a GIS service to a specified GIS server based on a staged service definition file (.sd).
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