ArcSDE Services Monitor Configuration
Valid ArcSDE services can be monitored by the ArcSDE Services Monitor. If the ArcSDE Services Monitor was selected to be installed, the ArcSDE Services Monitor Configuration is available as a post installation setup option.
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Provide Application Server Host Name and Registry Port.
Enter the name of the machine where the Application Server is installed. Your machine name is provided as your Application Server host name by default. To find the host name of your machine, open a Command Prompt and type hostname. The Registry Port default is 5353. The ArcIMS Spatial Server, Monitor, and Tasker communicate with the ArcIMS Application Server via the Registry port.
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Provide user name and password for ArcIMS services authorization.
The user name and password is required to start the ArcIMS Monitor service. The user name should include the domain and the user name of the ArcIMS installation account, for example, ESRI\imsuser. The user account must have administrator privileges. By default, the domain and user name of the account installing ArcIMS is provided.
- Select the ArcSDE services you want to be monitored.
The ArcIMS post installation setup checks for valid ArcSDE services in the ArcSDE services.sde file and in the Windows registry under \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\ArcInfo\ArcSDE\ArcSDE for <dbms type>. Valid ArcSDE services found will be listed under SDE services. Select the ArcSDE service you would like to monitor and click the button. To monitor a valid ArcSDE service that is not listed, use the Other button. When a valid ArcSDE service is chosen, the post installation setup will edit the <ArcIMS Installation Directory>\ArcIMS\Server\monitor\sde.properties file with the following parameters:
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instanceNames=<your ArcSDE Service name>
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portNumbers=<your ArcSDE Service port>
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sdehomes=<your ArcSDE Service's Home>
The installer also edits the Monitor.properties file located at <ArcIMS Installation Directory>\ArcIMS\Server\monitor and uncomments this line: sdePropertiesFilename=Sde.properties.
If you have a typo or error in either of these files, when you reboot or attempt to start the ArcIMS Monitor, your ArcIMS Monitor may not start.

ArcIMS and ArcSDE must be the same version for the metadata service to function.
You need to configure your Web server for ArcIMS Service Administrator. The ArcIMS Service Administrator presents a unified interface for managing ArcIMS and ArcSDE. If you want to use the ArcIMS Service Administrator to remotely administer ArcSDE Services, you must configure your Web Server. The post installation will configure your Web server for you—see Web server servlet engine configuration. If you choose to manually configure your Web server, see the steps provided at ESRI Support Web site knowledge base document 37382 for details on manually configuring your Web server for ArcIMS Service Administrator.