What happens when you publish to ArcGIS Server?

What happens when you publish to ArcGIS Server?

When you publish, ArcGIS Server automatically places a copy of your data in the managed database, since these service types explicitly require an enterprise geodatabase. The managed database can only be used with feature or WFS-T services, along with any capabilities concurrently published with these service types.

How are web maps managed in ArcGIS Enterprise?

When you publish a web map, layer, or service to ArcGIS Enterprise, you determine how your data will be managed. The first step in this process is to decide if you’ll copy data or register your data with one (or more) of the federated servers that comprise your ArcGIS Enterprise portal.

What are User Managed Storage locations in ArcGIS?

User-managed storage locations are the data sources that you or others in your organization manage, such as a database, folder, or cloud storage locations. Conversely, when you use data storage locations managed by ArcGIS—such as ArcGIS Data Store—you do not manage or access the underlying databases.

How to register data in ArcGIS Enterprise portal?

If you copy the data when you publish a feature layer and later decide you need to keep the data, export the data from the hosted feature layer in the portal, move the data into a database or enterprise geodatabase you register with ArcGIS Server, and publish. For information on registering data, see How to register your data with ArcGIS Server.

Is there only one hosting server per ArcGIS Enterprise?

There is only one hosting server per ArcGIS Enterprise organization. When you register a user-managed data store and publish web layers to a federated server, the web layers always reference the data in the registered data store. If the data in the registered data store changes, you will see those changes in the web layer.

How are web layers published in ArcGIS portal?

You can publish hosted web layers from certain files you add to your organization. When you publish from files in the portal, the services for the resultant layers always run on the hosting server. The following table lists the files you can upload, the hosted web layers you publish from them, and where the layer’s data resides:

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