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

n

Ind

ex

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?