Publisher role support in Manager

If your account is in a role that only has Publisher privileges to ArcGIS Server, you can log in to ArcGIS Server Manager, but some administrative features are disabled. This also applies when you make a publisher connection to your server using ArcGIS for Desktop, or when you use the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory.

This topic lists which features are available to publishers.

Actions publishers can do in Manager

Publishers are able to do the following actions:

• Create and delete folders.
• View, publish, and delete services.
• Start, stop, and edit services.
• Set permissions rules about who can view services.
• Deploy and undeploy server object extensions (SOEs).
• View security configuration settings (for example, which type of role store is being used).
• View available users and the roles to which each user belongs.
• View available roles, the users who belong to each role, and the privileges assigned to each role.
• View and query logs.
• Create KML network links.
• View software authorization information.
• Register databases and data directories with the server.

Note:

Prior to 10.1 Service Pack 1, databases and data directories cannot be registered using a publisher login in Manager; however, they can be registered using a publisher connection in ArcGIS for Desktop or the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory.

Actions forbidden to publishers in Manager

The following actions are not available to publishers. They are only available to users who have Administrator privileges.

• Edit the configuration store location.
• View, create, and edit clusters and their participating machines.
• Add and remove machines from the site.
• Start or stop a machine's participation in a site.
• Register and unregister server directories.
• Unregister Web Adaptors with the site.
• Edit security configuration settings (for example, which type of role store is being used).
• Add and remove users.
• Add and remove roles.
• Add and remove users from roles.
• Assign and revoke privileges on roles.
• Edit the primary site administrator.
• Edit log settings.
• Enable or disable automatic data copying when publishing to the server.