3 Days (RM1,800.00)

Overview
Setting up and maintaining a production ArcIMS server requires implementing effective strategies to ensure performance, security, and reliability.  This course teaches those strategies.  Participants learn how to protect and maintain ArcIMS servers and configure firewalls.  Course topics include tuning ArcIMS services, setting up secure servers, applying hardware sizing and important networking skills.  Participants learn advanced installation and configuration techniques with a focus on distributed installations.  Creating, configuring and monitoring ArcIMS connections to ArcSDE servers are all covered.

Topics Covered

• Network communication: Describe the Internet protocols that will be the vocabulary for the remainder of the course; Examine each from the standpoint of ArcIMS; How they work; How they can go wrong; Typical problems.
• Security: Describe common security strategies using the inherent capabilities of the operating system; Discuss firewall technologies, packet filtering, proxy services, network address translation, and virtual private networks; Discuss firewall architecture best practices and implications to ArcIMS; SSL and HTTPS; ArcIMS Service authentication.
• Installation and configuration: Practical distributed configurations; Load balancing spatial servers; Using multiple Web servers; Creating server clusters.
• Service tuning: Response time; Scale-dependent rendering; Generalization; Image types; Map projections; Image directories; Spatial indexes.
• ArcIMS sizing: Hardware considerations; Network bandwidth guidelines; Application server queuing.
• ArcSDE architecture and connections: ArcSDE software architecture; Setting up an ArcSDE server using ArcIMS; Creating ArcSDE application server and direct connections; Serving a versioned geodatabase with ArcIMS.
• ArcSDE vector data: ArcSDE feature class storage architecture; Serverside data loading using ArcSDE command line utilities; Organizing and managing privileges; Managing spatial and attribute indexes for optimal display and query performance; Presenting data using spatial views; Generalizing data for small-scale display using sdegroup.
• ArcSDE raster data: ArcSDE raster data storage architecture; Loading images using ArcSDE command line utilities; Creating seamless mosaics; Creating multirow rasters.

Prerequisites and recommendations
It is recommended that participants complete Introduction to ArcIMS or have equivalent experience with the terms and concepts used in ArcIMS. General knowledge of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol networking principles is assumed.