Starting ArcIMS Administrator and Service Administrator expand/collapse all
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expand/collapse item About ArcIMS Administrator and Service Administrator

ArcIMS Administrator and Service Administrator allow you to manage ArcIMS services, Spatial Servers, and Virtual Servers. Both of these applications provide most of the same functionality.

When you start Administrator or Service Administrator for the first time, you are prompted to provide a new user name and password. You are also prompted to confirm your password. After these login credentials are established, you must provide your user name and password each time you start Administrator or Service Administrator. See Creating and changing your password for details on modifying your user name and password or if you have forgotten your password.

After you have made changes to the site configuration by adding or removing services, Virtual Servers, Spatial Servers, or Folders, you should save the configuration. If ArcIMS must be restarted for some reason, the site configuration files recreate the ArcIMS site to its previous state. The primary configuration file is ArcIMSSite.sez. If you are using MapNotes ore EditNotes, a second configuration file named ArcIMSFolders is also created. The location of these files are:

Windows: <ArcGIS Installation Directory>\ArcIMS\AppServer
UNIX and Linux: $AIMSHOME/Middleware/Application_Server

expand/collapse item How to start ArcIMS Administrator and Service Administrator

expand/collapse item Starting ArcIMS Administrator

  1. Open Administrator:

    Windows: Click Start | Programs | ArcGIS | ArcIMS | Administrator.
    UNIX or Linux: Type aimsadmin at the prompt.

  2. Type your User Name and Password.
  3. Click OK.

expand/collapse item Opening another ArcIMS site using Adminstrator

Administrator can be used to administer sites that are hosted on other machines within your network. To access sites on other machines, use the Open Site tool. The other sites must be using the same version of ArcIMS as the machine where Administrator resides.

  1. Click the File menu, and click Open Site.
  2. Only one site can be open at a time. Click Yes to remove the current site.
  3. Type an alias for the site.
  4. Type the URL of the computer hosting the ArcIMS Application Server.
  5. Click OK.
  6. To log in, type your User Name and Password.
  7. Click OK.

expand/collapse item Starting Service Administrator

  1. Open a Web browser.
  2. Enter the URL http://<host>.<domain>.com/esriadmin in the Location or Address text box.

    where
    <host>.<domain> is the name of your Web server.

  3. In the page that appears, type your username and password.
  4. Click Login.
  5. If you have both ArcIMS and ArcSDE installed, a panel appears prompting you to choose the type of services you wish to manage.
    • Click the service you wish to manage.
    • Click OK.

      The Manage Services tab appears, showing a list of the services you can manage.

    • To switch from ArcIMS to ArcSDE administration, click Home, click ArcSDE, and click OK. This option is only available if you have installed the ArcSDE Administrator on your ArcSDE application server. See the ArcIMS Installation Guide for details.

expand/collapse item Accessing additional Application Servers using Service Administrator

  1. Open a Web browser.
  2. Enter the URL http://<host>.<domain>.com/esriadmin/log.jsp?host=<Application Server machine>&port=<port> in the Location or Address text box.

    where
    <host>.<domain> is the name of your Web server.
    <Application Server machine> is the name of the machine where the Application Server resides.
    <port> is the port number of the Application Server.

    http ://mywebserver.esri.com/esriadmin/log.jsp?host=myappserver&port=5300

  3. In the page that appears, type your username and password.
  4. Click Login.
  5. Click OK.


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