agsadmin

agsadmin provides a convenient Python front-end to several REST calls on the ArcGIS Server 10.1+ REST Admin API.

Features

• Map/Geoprocessing Services
  • start and stop
  • get statistics
  • get status
  • get or set the item info (description, summary, tags, etc.)
  • set service properties
• Machines
  • start and stop
• System
  • Directories
    • list directories
    • register new directories
    • unregister directories
    • clean directories
• Uploads
  • list uploads
  • get a specific upload item
  • upload a file

These functions can be used to automate management of ArcGIS Services (e.g. start/stop services on a schedule, start/stop services to perform maintenance on associated datasets, etc.)

Example

The following is a simplistic example to stop and start a map service.

import agsadmin

hostname = "<ServerNameHere>"
username = "<UsernameHere>"
password = "<PasswordHere>"

rest_admin = agsadmin.RestAdmin(hostname, username, password)
service = rest_admin.services.get_service("<MapServiceNameHere>", "MapServer", "<OptionalFolderHere>")
service.stop_service()
service.start_service()
service.delete()