Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Allen Sparks — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:47:09 GMT

I'm looking for info on how to configure ArcGISInput for a multi-server 9.3.1 configuration. I didn't find anything in the server help.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

sterlingdq — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:03:15 GMT

The input directory works like the other server directories (cache, jobs, and output) in that you can create a directory and register it with ArcGIS Server through the Server Properties. This is what you would do in a multiple machine deployment where the input directory is not sitting at c:\arcgisserver\arcgisinput. You'll need to explicitly give the SOC account permissions to access the directory.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

lewisje — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:51:31 GMT

Any word when the full functionality of the json components of the ARCWEB services will be available?

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

prozect — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:55:55 GMT

hi.

Pubilshinq after "Server object instance creation failed on all SOC machines" message have stop service.

my confing: ArcGIS Server 9.3.1

Thanks~

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

hemphij — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:46:56 GMT

Any issues with compatibility with Image Server layers? All my background photography layers have been labelled as critical errors with a description of 'Layer type is not supported'

How to enable the Map Service Publishing toolbar?

huttarl — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:22:54 GMT

Hi Sterling,

I appreciate these in-depth blog posts as well as your presentations at the Dev Summit.

I'm trying to start using these MSD features in ArcMap, but the buttons on the Map Service Publishing toolbar are all grayed out. I read the help on http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=Publishing_optimized_map_services&anchor=Analyze%20and%20repair%20map%20drawing%20performance

but couldn't find anything about what would be causing the toolbar to be disabled.

The logged-in user is a member of agsadmin, though from what you said above that shouldn't be required just to save your map as an MSD.

I'm also using the ArcEditor license, but again, from what you wrote that shouldn't be an issue.

Any help would be appreciated.

Lars

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

sterlingdq — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:59:15 GMT

@hemphij - You'll have to remove the Image Server layers from your map document before you can publish an MSD-based service; they are currently not supported. In your client application we recommend that you connect directly to the image service and add the MSD-based map service on top. This cuts out the overhead of going through the map service to get to the image service.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

sterlingdq — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:02:54 GMT

@Lars- Glad you've found this blog helpful. Unfortunately we're not sure why your toolbar would be grayed out. One thing you might try is

(making a backup of and) deleting your Normal.mxt file in C:\Documents and Settings\your user name\Application Data\ESRI\ArcMap\Templates. Once you've deleted this file restart ArcMap and a new Normal.mxt will be created. We'd be interested to know if this solves the problem.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

sterlingdq — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:03:50 GMT

@Lars- One other possibility is that you are in Layout view? The tools should be enabled in Design view.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Ryan P. — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:28:04 GMT

I don't see how ESRI can launch a new "faster map" service without Image Server support. Our organization bought Image Server, to speed up our web mapping! We have many terabytes of imagery and loading these into SDE is not a great option and is slower in our tests. Re-writing our web apps to perform some sort of mashup of ArcGIS Server and Image Server is also not very workable. This sounds like a huge amount of work for us. Our map product has over 30 ArcGIS layers to combine with almost a dozen Image Server layers. I suspect the ending image quality would be lower, and I have my doubts it would be any faster!

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

steve — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:20:28 GMT

yah this is a real bummer that image service cannot be integrated into the msd process.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Xiaoming — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:29:15 GMT

Is there a way you can configure the property of MSD-based service, such as schemalock, max number of records returned by query etc, like you do for a MXD-based service?

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

sterlingdq — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:19:30 GMT

@Xiaoming - Yes, the MSD-based services have the same type of configuration file as the MXD-based services. These files are in the same location: ArcGIS Server install directory\server\user\cfg

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Xiaoming — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:27:40 GMT

thanks for your reply. Some additional question: 1. for query operation, does msd outperform mxd? 2. will msd perform better for drawing raster data? 3. for a cached service, does it matter whether a msd or mxd being published on the server?

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

khuynh11 — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:30:55 GMT

Do I can create a web mapping application with ArcView 9.3 or ArcGIS Desktop using the Microsoft.Net Framework? Please provide me a tutorial about this. Thanks.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Lars — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:35:07 GMT

Re: #5886 Thanks Sterling. I was indeed in Layout view, and when I switched to Data view the toolbar buttons were enabled. Would be great to see that required step documented in the documentation.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

sterlingdq — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:46:30 GMT

@Xiaoming- Here are some answers to your questions.

1. Performance should be the same for the raw query but the overall workload on your server may be less with the MSD-based service. This could cause the query to run faster.

2. MSD-based services do perform better for drawing raster data. The gain in performance varies by the dataset, with some rasters exhibiting significant gains in performance with MSD-based services.

3. Cached services can be published through either MXDs or MSDs. MSD-based services will be faster for tile creation. Once you've created the tiles, it doesn't matter which type of file is being published on the server. However, if you have on-demand caching enabled an MSD-based service will result in faster on-demand draws.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Xiaoming — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:07:47 GMT

I have issues to use direct connection to SDE(9.3 sp1) on Oracle (10.2.0.3). When using direct connection, I can publish MXD through ArcCatalog or Manger without any problem. However, I got error message when publishing it as MSD through ArcMap. Does anybody have the similar prblem? thanks xiaoming

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

wudgcd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:29:09 GMT

Is it possible to access the Carto.Imap with a MSD based web service?

I get the following error when trying cast an Carto.IMapServer object to IMapServerObjects:

Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'ESRI.ArcGIS.Carto.IMapServerObjects'. This operation failed because the QueryInterface call on the COM component for the interface with IID '{651521F3-AAFF-42B9-8C2D-1980625A13BF}' failed due to the following error: No such interface supported (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004002 (E_NOINTERFACE)).

Public Shared Function GetMapInterface(ByRef mpWUAMap As ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.Web.UI.WebControls.Map, ByRef AGSLocalMapResource As ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.Web.DataSources.ArcGISServer.MapResourceLocal) As IMap

Dim mfunct As IMapFunctionality = GetMapFunctionality(mpWUAMap)

Dim map As IMap = Nothing

If mfunct IsNot Nothing Then

AGSLocalMapResource = CType(mfunct.Resource, ESRI.ArcGIS.ADF.Web.DataSources.ArcGISServer.MapResourceLocal)

Dim iMapServ As IMapServer = AGSLocalMapResource.MapServer

'COM Cast Error occurs here***

Dim mapServerObjects As IMapServerObjects = CType(iMapServ, IMapServerObjects)

map = mapServerObjects.Map(AGSLocalMapResource.DataFrame)

End If

Return map

End Function

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

djeang — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:30:23 GMT

I'm using Java Web Adf 9.3.0

I have trouble trying to use MSD based Service I get the error on trying to get the default Map.

Is there any incompatibility working with MSD based Service ?

This code works fine with MXD service...

(Just tried with 9.3.1 java library and get the same error)

Thanks for your help !

java.lang.ClassCastException: A COM object reference via iid 0ad6ab40-9d6a-4bf8-8b86-eb89406dfc6c does not support COM interface 651521f3-aaff-42b9-8c2d-1980625a13bf

at com.esri.arcgis.interop.Dispatch.c(Unknown Source)

at com.esri.arcgis.interop.Dispatch.vtblInvoke(Unknown Source)

at com.esri.arcgis.carto.IMapServerObjectsProxy.getMap(Unknown Source)

at com.esri.arcgis.carto.MapServer.getMap(Unknown Source)

at my.com.caj.core.integration.arcgis.arcobject.CajfwArcgsiServerContext.getDefaultMap(CajfwArcgsiServerContext.java:154)

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

tomlux — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:43:31 GMT

Hy, I'm also getting the previous reported error: Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: A COM object reference via iid 0ad6ab40-9d6a-4bf8-8b86-eb89406dfc6c does not support COM interface 651521f3-aaff-42b9-8c2d-1980625a13bf at com.esri.arcgis.interop.Dispatch.c(Unknown Source) at com.esri.arcgis.interop.Dispatch.vtblInvoke(Unknown Source) at com.esri.arcgis.carto.IMapServerObjectsProxy.getMap(Unknown Source) Tom

re: COM Cast Exception

c_r_b — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:01:39 GMT

Some operations that are supported in MXD-based services are not supported in MSD-based services. Apparently this is a function of performance: in order to achieve the performance of the MSD-based services not all MXD-type ops can be supported. More info at this forum thread:

http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=158&f=2272&t=284524

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

rmontgom — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:14:11 GMT

1) I too had the problem where the toolbar is grayed out in Layout view. As you said, it only works in Data view (Not sure what was meant by "Design" view in an earlier response). So how come over in ArcGIS Server Manager, when publishing a service, the primary option (under Parameters) for the Data Frame is the Active Data Frame in the Map document? This is obviously in the LAYOUT. Why doesn't the toolbar allow us to use it the way that the Server will see the data? I have a Layout in an MXD designed so that the data frame contains just the part of some aerial photography that I want to build the cache for. So when I use the server to Publish the map service, the data frame limits the area to be cached, as desired. But the toolbar doesn't work that way. To use it, I have to stretch and funk-ify the ArcMap window parts so that what's visible in the Data view approximates what's in the Layout. Kludgy. 2) OK, so I have the toolbar functional by being in the data view. I run the "Analyze Map" for the first time. It gives incorrect results. It claims that my data is not coming from a Direct-Connect source, but it IS TOO. What's up with that? Thanks, Ray Montgomery, GISP Sandy City, Utah

Need to change authentication info in .MSD files

GeoDecisionsEDN6 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:20:49 GMT

Are there any tools available for working with the MSD directly? Our GIS team (the people making the MSDs) do not have access to the production geodeatabase and need to be able to send a client sys admin an MSD file that he can run a tool on to set the correct connection information and then copy the MSD to a specified location. The client sys admin does not have access to AGS Desktop. We follow the same process above with MXD files now.

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Fred — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:36:31 GMT

Is there any way to resize the 'Analyze Map' results window? I was able to use the button after discovering that map analysis only works in the data view. The results window at the bottom of the screen has no scroll bars until it's docked in a vertical position either in the center frame or outside the ArcMap window. The box seems to be limited in width to about 30 characters. It would be nice to be able to adjust the width to see the entire error line (or lines.) Has anyone else run into this or have a solution? Thanks!

re: Questions and answers about ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 map services

Fred — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:16:43 GMT

@Fred Well... now it works the way I expected. The results box can be resized by dragging the borders (but not the corners.)