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Configure an ArcGIS Reality Server site

For members of your organization to use reality service tools in ArcGIS Enterprise, you'll need to set up a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, an image hosting server, a reality server and raster store. Review the information in the best practices for reality server.

The following instructions may require changes to the way you've deployed ArcGIS in your organization; review them carefully before proceeding.

  1. If you do not already have a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment configured, set one up.

    See Tutorial: Set up a base ArcGIS Enterprise deployment for more details.

  2. Set up a second ArcGIS Server site by installing ArcGIS Server on one or more machines. License this ArcGIS Server site as the ArcGIS Reality Server.

  3. Begin configuring ArcGIS Reality Server by signing in to ArcGIS Server Manager and browse to Site > Data Stores.

  4. Register a raster data store with ArcGIS Reality Server.

    Reality services stores processed rasters in a data store, referred to as raster store. This can be either of the following:

    • Cloud store with enterprise geodatabase types of raster store—In this configuration, the analysis output will be stored at cloud raster store and the mosaic dataset will be stored at the enterprise geodatabase raster store.

      Tip:

      This type of configuration is recommended for better scalability for hosted imagery layers.

    • File share type of raster datastore—In this configuration, both the analysis output and the mosaic dataset will be stored at the file share raster store.

    • Cloud store with file share type of raster datastore—In this configuration, the analysis output will be stored at the cloud raster store and the mosaic dataset will be stored at the file share raster store.

    Important:

    Additional steps are needed to set up file Share raster store for Reality Server on Linux.

  5. Sign in to the portal as a member with administrative privileges.

    The URL is in the format https://webadaptorhost.domain.com/<webadaptorname>/home.

  6. Browse to Organization > Settings > Servers.

  7. Federate your Reality Server Site with your portal.

    Important:

    All ArcGIS Reality Server sites that are federated with the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment must match the version of the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.

  8. On the Servers page, locate the ArcGIS Reality Server site that you federated with the portal.

  9. Click the option button next to the configured server and select Configure server role.

  10. On the Configure server role dialog box, enable ArcGIS Reality Server.

  11. Click Save.

  12. Install Reality Server runtime, if you want to use ArcGIS API for python as a client for accessing ArcGIS Reality Server tools.

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