Once the post installation setup has been run on the ArcGIS Server Object Manager machine and all of the ArcGIS Server Object Container machines, you need to use the operating system tools to perform the following:
Use the Windows Computer Manager to add users to the agsusers and agsadmin user groups. ArcGIS Server uses operating system authentication to allow users to connect to the ArcGIS Server, and to determine if they have administrator level access to the server.
User accounts that will connect to the ArcGIS Server must be members of the agsusers group on the Server Object Manager machine and all Server Object Container machines, or their connections will be denied. Users who are not members of the agsusers group will not be able to connect to the ArcGIS Server.
User accounts that will connect to and administer (add, start, stop server objects, add host machines, etc) the ArcGIS Server must be members of the agsadmin user group. You will not be able to create server objects, unless you connect to ArcGIS Server as a user in the agsadmin user group. For example, if the account you log into your computer as is mydomain\Bob, and you want to administer your ArcGIS Server, you must add mydomain\Bob to the agsadmin user group on all the server machines.
To add users to the agsusers or agsadmin user groups use Windows Computer Management:
On the Server Object Manager (SOM), open the Computer Management application:
On Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, click Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.
On Windows XP, click Start > Control Panel. Click performance and Maintenance. Click Administrative Tools and open Computer Management, click Start >
On Windows Vista, click Start > Control Panel (switch to Classic View, if necessary) > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.
On Windows Server 2008, click Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management.
In Computer Management, expand System Tools, then Local Users and Groups, then Groups.
Right-click the ArcGIS Server administrators group, named agsadmin, and click Properties.
On the Property page, click Add and, in the dialog box that appears, add your operating system account and any other accounts that you want to grant administrative access to the ArcGIS server.
Repeat 1 through 4 on each container machine.
Repeat the same steps (1-5) for the agsusers group - adding the users to the agsusers group that you want to be able to connect to the ArcGIS Server.
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IMPORTANT: After adding users to the agsusers and agsadmin user groups, you must log off your machine and log back on again for these changes to take effect. |
In order for the ArcGIS Server to perform, the ArcGIS Server Container account must have read access to all the map, locators and data that you want to serve with MapServer and GeocodeServer objects. If any of your applications modify data, you must grant the ArcGIS Server Container account write access to that data.
The ArcGIS Server manages a set of user-defined output directories that server objects and applications can write output to. The ArcGIS Server will periodically delete the contents of these directories. You must grant the ArcGIS Server Container account write access to all output directories.
If your ArcGIS Server configuration has multiple container machines, then both the data and output directories must be visible to all container machines. You will need to grant these privileges to the data and output directories and also their shares.
In order to run server objects on the ArcGIS Server, you must first specify at least one host machine and one output directory (the output directory path can be a UNC path name). A host machine is a machine on which you have installed the ArcGIS Server Container feature and is therefore capable of hosting server objects.
If you have a multiple machine configuration, you must also add at least one output directory to the ArcGIS Server. The output directory path must be a UNC path. You must also add at least one output directory to the ArcGIS Server.
The container machines host the server objects and are the workhorses of your GIS server. The first time you connect to your GIS server, you will need to link these container machines to the server object manager.
The Administration section of the help system provides instructions on how to establish a connection with the server object manager (SOM) machine of your GIS server. Once you've established this connection, you can add container (SOC) machines to your server.