Accessing REST resources from a federated server

When you attempt to access the ArcGIS Server Services Directory on a site that is federated with Portal for ArcGIS, you need to provide a portal token. This is an encrypted string of characters that proves you have provided credentials to the portal.

When you attempt to access the ArcGIS Server Administrator Directory on a site that is federated with a portal, you must either provide a portal token generated for a portal administrator or publisher or the primary site administrator name and password.

Generating a portal token

The Administrator Directory and Services Directory login pages provide a link to a separate page where you can type in a name and password and generate the token. You also need to provide the URL of the application that will use the token. (The login pages of the Administrator Directory and Services Directory provide some text explaining how to format the URL.)

Once the token appears on the screen you must copy it and paste it into the login page for the Administrator Directory or Services Directory. You can then log in and access these REST resources.

The page for generating a token is always available on your portal using the following URL format: https://webadaptor.domain.com/arcgis/sharing/rest/generateToken.