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Description

When ArcGIS Server is installed on a server machine, you must create a new site. A site is a collection of server resources, such as server machines that have ArcGIS Server installed with GIS services, data, and so on.

Subsequently, newer server machines can join a site and increase its computing power. Once a site is no longer required, it can be deleted, which releases its resources.

Note:

The configuration and meta information for the site is maintained on disk in a set of files that comprise the configuration store.

Once a site has been created, the result is a root resource for administering an ArcGIS Server deployment. The root resource returns a collection of hierarchically organized, top-level resources that provide access to additional resources and operations: machines, services, security, system, data, uploads, logs, kml, info, mode, and usage reports.

Alternative views of the root resource page, such as the json and pjson response formats, return the site's current licensing and language information.

Request parameters

ParameterDescription
f

The response format. The default response format is html.

Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

The following is a sample request URL used to access the ArcGIS Server Administrator API root resource:

https://machine.domain.com/webadaptor/admin?f=json

JSON Response syntax


{
  "isServerLicensed" : "<true | false>",
  "resources": [ "<Resource>", "<Resource>", ...],
  "currentVersion": <Version number, ex: xx.x>,
  "fullVersion": "<Full version number, ex: xx.x.x>",
  "acceptLanguage": "Language information"
}

JSON Response example


{
  "isServerLicensed": "true",
  "resources": [
    "machines",
    "clusters",
    "system",
    "services",
    "security",
    "data",
    "uploads",
    "logs",
    "mode",
    "usagereports",
    "webhooks"
  ],
  "currentVersion": 11.1,
  "fullVersion": "11.1.0",
  "acceptLanguage": "en-US,en;q=0.9"
}