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Web GIS Administration: Tips and
Tricks
Geri Miller
July 8th , 2017
EdUC 2017
Agenda
Concerns Acknowledged
• User Management
• Content Management
• Monitoring
• Licensing and logins
• Sophistication of IT support
required
• Where do I teach Web GIS?
• Others?
Resources and Discussion
• Q&A throughout
Deployment Patterns | Evolution
Desktop GIS (standalone GIS)
Server GIS(client-server GIS)
Web GIS
Distributed GIS
Web GIS | Anatomy
Desktop Web Device
Server Online Content
and Services
portal
1. Users & Apps
2. Portal
3. GIS Server 4. Basemaps & Utility Services
Web GIS | Components
1. Apps
2. Identity
3. Portal (geo-information model - Web Maps, Scenes, Layers)
4. Functionality (data management, visualization, analysis + your data + tools)
User Management
Identity
• Identity = Named User
• Access and manage your content across the platform
• Administrative benefits of identity
• Support for single sign-on systems at your school
• Students benefit from their personal identity
• Invitations and Custom Roles
The portal information model
• Named user
- Own content or groups
- Join groups
• Groups
- Control access
- Organize items
• Items
- Files: PDF, MPK, XLS, etc.
- Links: Services & applications
• Tags
- Index content Items
Users
Tags
Groups
Own or join
Ow
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Ind
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Index
D
Groups are building blocks
• Help organize classes, projects and activities
• Access to resources
• Collaboration within the organization
• Collaboration between organizations
D
Role privileges
Invite users
Use enterprise logins Assign role
Invite using file
(Pre-establish recommended)
D
Recommendation
• Use Enterprise Logins (Single Sign On)
- Easier user management
- Less instructions for students
- Keep in mind:
- Can’t assign ArcGIS Pro or other license until
user logs in
D
Credit Budgeting
• Enabled/disabled for your
organization
• Assign a number of credits
to one or more users
• Can be changed at any time
• Email notifications if
exceeded
D
Tools to Manage Users
• GeoJobe
• Python API
D
Content Management
Make content discoverable
Organization galleryDescription and Tags
Groups
Thumbnails
Tools to Manage Content
• AGO Assistant
• GeoJobe
• Python API
• Portal to Portal collaboration
D
One or Multiple Portals
• Universities vary in size and need and must decide if a single portal implementation
is sufficient
• In many cases, implementing multiple portals for different purposes is needed to
maximize research and learning goals
High-end researchers
Field team
Enterprise GIS course
University Portal
Department Portal
Architecture and Planning
ArcGIS Enterprise | Distributed Web GIS
RoadmapPortal to Portal Collaboration available at 10.5
Portal to ArcGIS Online Collaboration available at 10.5.1
Licensing and Logins
ArcGIS Pro and Premium App Licensing
Single
Use
Named
User
Concurrent
Use
Managed in your portal
• Access controlled by Named User
• Organization Admin can:
- Grant access by User, Group, Role
- Control product level and extension
- Re-assign access as needed
- Know who is using what and when
Assign licenses
• Manage licenses for ArcGIS Pro
and other apps
• Select users by name, role, our
groups
Key Concepts
When Managing Licenses
• Organization Management
- Groups
- Custom Roles
D
Monitor
Organization Status and Management
D
IT Support
ArcGIS Enterprise | Web GIS Portals
ArcGIS
Enterprise
ArcGIS
Online
The Esri built code free
frontend for creating the Web
GIS experience in your
organization.
The difference between the
two is in how you get started
and where your Web GIS
ultimately resides;
and to a lesser, but growing,
extent what your Web GIS
can do.
Additional Capabilities – ArcGIS Enterprise
• GeoAnalytics Server
• Business Analyst Server
• Raster Analytics within the
Image Server
• Using the spatiotemporal data
store with GeoEvent Server
• Additionally, Insights for
ArcGIS and Portal to Portal
collaboration
D
Which portal should I implement?
• Hosted (Cloud, SAAS)
- Lower overall cost (faster start, less admin costs)
- Elasticity
- Continuous updates and improvements from Esri
• In your infrastructure (software)
- Have no Internet/www connection
- Have strict SLAs and governance
- Not ready/interested in the cloud
- Advanced GIS functionality ArcGIS Enterprise
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Enterprise
ArcGIS Enterprise
ArcGIS Server Portal for ArcGIS ArcGIS Web Adaptor ArcGIS Data Store
GIS Server
Image Server
GeoEvent Server
GeoAnalytics Server
Business Analyst Server
Relational
Tile Cache
Spatiotemporal
server roles
data store types
Level 1
Level 2
named
user levels
software
components
Where do I teach ArcGIS
Enterprise
Environments to teach ArcGIS Enterprise
• Cloud:
- AWS
- Azure
- Etc.
• File-based VMs
• VDI
• Others?
Teaching (ArcGIS Enterprise) in AWS
Tuesday, July 11th
1:30 – 2:45 pm
Marriott Level 3, Carlsbad room
U-Shaped table with AV
Modernized Curriculum
What have we been hearing…
Big DataEnterprise
GIS
Analytics
APIs and SDKs
Real Time
3D
Web Apps Field AppsDesktop
Apps
VisualizationData
Collection & Mgmt
Imagery
GIS Education Modernization | “Straw Man” curriculum
1. GIS Today
2. GIS Yesterday and Tomorrow
3. GIS as a Service
4. GIS in your Apps
5. GIS APIs and SDKs
6. GIS in your IT
7. GIS in the Field (beyond office)
8. Geodata Science
9. Mapping and Visualization
10. Spatial Analytics
11. Real Time GIS
12. Imagery and Remote Sensing
13. Distributed Computing
14. How to learn GIS
Modernized curriculum Shift in resources used and pedagogy
• Writing cookbook exercises = not sustainable
• The way you learn in a GIS class = the way you learn in the workplace
• New teaching methods?
Resources
Resources
• Esri web site: ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise
• Documentation: ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise
• GeoNet: ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise
• ArcGIS Blog [tag]
• Esri Training
• Portal Services REST API
• Web GIS Tutorial
• Getting to Know Web GIS book
• Technical Support
- Not just for bugs
Questions?