An overview of the Server toolbox

The Server toolbox contains tools to manage ArcGIS Server map and globe caches. It also contains tools that simplify data extraction through the server.

Toolset

Description

Caching

The Caching toolset creates and manages caches for faster display of map and globe services. The caches consist of pregenerated images that the server can distribute to clients. Tools with "Map Server" in the name work with map services; tools with "Globe Server" in the name work with globe services.

Data Extraction

The Data Extraction toolset provides four tools to implement advanced clip, zip, and ship tasks as an ArcGIS Server geoprocessing service. General extracting tools, such as those in the Extract toolset and the feature analysis tool Clip, only allow you to extract the subset of a single layer data with the output showing the same data format and spatial reference as the input. These tools are somewhat limited for those who would like to extract data with the flexibility to select multiple layers, output format, and spatial reference—especially over the Internet. The Data Extraction toolset is designed to facilitate such functionality so you can efficiently extract the multiple-layered data with the specified format and spatial reference through the geoprocessing service. Moreover, you can zip the output file and send it through e-mail, thus making the whole extraction and delivery process more effective.

Toolsets in the Server toolbox

5/9/2011