Specify a hosting server through the ArcGIS Portal Directory REST endpoint

Summary

A GIS Server site can be registered as a hosting server once a federated GIS Server site has a relational and tile cache data store. Sometimes, a federated GIS Server site cannot be selected as the hosting server from the portal website for several reasons. One of which is configuring ArcGIS Web Adaptor to use a domain naming system (DNS) as opposed to a fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

As an alternative, follow the steps described in this article to specify the federated GIS server as the portal's hosting server through the ArcGIS Portal Directory REST endpoint.

Procedure

Note:
The following steps must only be performed by the organization administrator.

1. Navigate to the ArcGIS Portal Directory REST endpoint using the following URL:

https://<webadaptorhost>.<domain>.com/<webadaptorname>/sharing/rest

2. Log in to the ArcGIS Portal Directory REST endpoint using an administrator account, and click Home.

3. Under Home, navigate to Child Resources and click Portals.

 

4. Under Portals Root, navigate to Child Resources and click Self.

5. In the Self page, navigate to the end of the page and click Servers.

6. In the Server List page, in the Server Id column, browse to and select the desired server to set as the hosting server.

7. Click Update Server to open the Update Server page.

8. Under Update Server, for URL, specify the ArcGIS Web Adaptor URL.
9. Click Update.