agsadmin

======== agsadmin

agsadmin provides a convenient Python front-end to several REST calls on the ArcGIS Server 10.1+ REST Admin API.

Features

ArcGIS Server (RestAdmin)

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• Services (Map/Image/Geoprocessing/Geometry/Geocode/GeoData/Globe/Search)

  • start and stop
  • get statistics
  • get status
  • get or set the item info (description, summary, tags, etc.)
  • set service properties
  • rename services

• Machines

  • start and stop

• System

  • Directories

    • list directories
    • register new directories
    • unregister directories
    • clean directories

• Uploads

  • list uploads
  • get a specific upload item
  • upload a file

These functions can be used to automate management of ArcGIS Services (e.g. start/stop services on a schedule, start/stop services to perform maintenance on associated datasets, etc.)

ArcGIS Portal (SharingAdmin)

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• Content

  • get item
  • add/get/move/delete/update user item
  • get user/folder content

• Community

  • get user
  • get group
  • create group
  • update group

Example

The following is a simplistic example to stop and start a map service.

.. code-block:: python

import agsadmin

hostname = "" username = "" password = ""

rest_admin = agsadmin.RestAdmin(hostname, username, password) service = rest_admin.services.get_service("", "MapServer", "") service.stop_service() service.start_service() service.delete()