ArcGIS Enterprise Admin (EAEP) case studies
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The ArcGIS Enterprise Administration Professional credential is listed by Esri as an individual certification within its training and certification program. It is aimed at GIS professionals who deploy, operate, and maintain ArcGIS Enterprise - Esri's self-hosted ArcGIS deployment - on infrastructure their organization manages, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both. The ArcGIS Enterprise Admin (EAEP) case studies are 5 cases and about 5,138 words.
1Federated Services Fail After a Data Center Failover
A city government runs ArcGIS Enterprise across two data centers. Portal for ArcGIS is installed on portal1 (DC-A) and portal2 (DC-B); an F5 virtual server publishes https://gis.city.gov.
1,054 words, about 5 min2Air-Gapped Upgrade and License Renewal in a 10-Hour Window
An environmental agency runs a fully air-gapped ArcGIS Enterprise 10.9.1 deployment on Windows Server 2019: two portal machines, two ArcGIS Server machines, and an ArcGIS Data Store primary/standby pair. The portal license file expires in 45 days, and the agency is licensed for 11.3 across all components.
1,030 words, about 5 min3SAML Group Claims and Portal-Tier Tokens After an IdP Migration
A county portal serves 1,100 enterprise accounts through SAML with Microsoft Entra ID and 60 built-in accounts for seasonal contractors. Three portal groups are mapped to roles from SAML group membership: GIS Publishers to Publisher, GIS Viewers to Viewer, and GIS Admins to Administrator.
1,023 words, about 5 min4Hosted Publishing Fails and Diverges From the Authoritative Geodatabase
A water utility keeps its authoritative asset data in an enterprise geodatabase on SQL Server 2019: 14 million water mains, valves, and hydrants, all registered as versioned. The geodatabase is registered with the federated ArcGIS Server as a database data store, and a managed ArcGIS Data Store relational store backs hosted layers.
1,024 words, about 5 min5Shift-Change Meltdown at a 911 Center
A regional 911 center runs a three-machine ArcGIS Server site (16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM each), a single-machine portal, and relational plus tile cache data stores. The site hosts 120 services, including two geoprocessing services that build drive-time polygons from about 6,000 points and take roughly 7 minutes each; a Python script calls one of them every 15 minutes around the clock.
1,007 words, about 5 min