Creating elevation globe services on ArcGIS 10.1 for Server

If you want to use the USA Elevation and/or World Elevation services, you need to create these globe services on ArcGIS 10.1 for Server. These services will reference the globe caches on the data appliance.

Configuring ArcGIS 10.1 for Server to use the elevation cache folder on the data appliance

ArcGIS 10.1 for Server maintains a list of folders in which it can find map and globe cache tiles. You need to explicitly add the Data Appliance cache elevation folder to this list.

Note:

To use the elevation globe services, you need to create a separate cache folder pointing to the elevation folder on the data appliance. For example, if you created \\ARCGISDATAAPP\cache, that cache folder will work only for map services and not for elevation services. You need to create a new cache folder pointing to the elevation folder inside the cache folder on the data appliance, for example, \\ARCGISDATAAPP\cache\elevation.

Steps:

1. Log in to ArcGIS for Server using the Data Appliance for ArcGIS data account with administrator privileges.
2. Start ArcGIS Server Manager and log in using your ArcGIS for Server account.
3. Click the Site tab.
4. From the View menu on the left, click Directories.
5. Click Add Directory on the right below the Directories description.
6. Enter a Name, for example, ElevationCache. From the Type list, choose Cache.
7. For Location, enter the path to the elevation cache folder on the ArcGIS Data Appliance data collection you made when you created shares, for example, \\ARCGISDATAAPP\cache\elevation.
8. You do not need to specify a Description, Cleaning Mode, or Maximum File Age.
9. Click Add to add the directory.

Edit the JSON file on the data appliance

Steps:

1. In a text editor, open the ESRI_Elevation_World_Template.json file located in the source_documents\service definitions folder on the data appliance.
2. In the path and cachedir lines, replace <SERVER_NAME> with the name or IP address of your server.
3. If the share names you are using are not the default names of source_documents and cache, make the corresponding change to the paths (notice that two backslashes are used to separate folders from subfolders).
4. Save the changes and copy the entire file to the clipboard.

Create the elevation globe service on ArcGIS 10.1 for Server

Steps:

1. Log in to the Administrator Directory using the URL http://<server name>:6080/arcgis/admin.

   

2. Click services then click createService.

   

3. Paste the text that was copied from the ESRI_Elevation_World_Template.json file on the data appliance.

   

4. Click Create.

   The World Elevation globe service is created.

Repeat for additional elevation globe service

If you want to use the USA Elevation globe service, repeat the steps above to Edit the JSON file on the data appliance and Create the elevation globe service on ArcGIS 10.1 for Server with USGS_Elevation_US_Template.json.