How you upgrade depends on how and when you created the ArcGIS Server site on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This includes ArcGIS GIS Server, ArcGIS Image Server, or ArcGIS Knowledge Server sites.
- Any ArcGIS Server site on AWS can be upgraded using a manual upgrade procedure. If you created the site before 10.8, you must use the manual procedure to upgrade.
- If you created the ArcGIS Server site using a 10.8 or 10.8.1 Esri Amazon Web Services CloudFormation template, you can upgrade using Chef scripts.
- If you created the ArcGIS Server site using a 10.9, 10.9.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, or 11.3 Esri CloudFormation template, you can use the corresponding 11.4 CloudFormation template to upgrade it.
- If you created the ArcGIS Server site using 10.9, 10.9.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, or 11.3 ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for Amazon Web Services, you can use 11.4 ArcGIS Enterprise Cloud Builder for AWS to upgrade it.
Before you upgrade
Regardless of the upgrade method you use, review the following information before you upgrade your deployment:
- You must obtain a new license file to upgrade to 11.4.
- Make a backup of the ArcGIS Server site before upgrading.
- If the ArcGIS Server site is federated with an ArcGIS Enterprise portal, you must upgrade the portal before upgrading this federated server.
- If you use manual procedures or a Chef script to upgrade, you must remove the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in the ArcGIS Server site from the AWS Auto Scaling group (if it is in one) before you can upgrade the site. Once upgraded, you cannot put the instances back in the Auto Scaling group. Therefore, you must manually add instances to or delete instances from the ArcGIS Server site when needed, and you cannot use the Lambda functions created using Amazon Web Services CloudFormation templates provided by Esri to stop and start these instances.
If you don't remove the instances or if you put the instances back in the Auto Scaling group after you upgrade, instances added to the ArcGIS Server site by the Auto Scaling group will be running the old version of the software. You cannot have a mix of ArcGIS Server versions in a site, so this can corrupt your deployment.
Upgrade using manual upgrade procedures
The manual upgrade procedure for an ArcGIS Server site on AWS is similar to upgrading one on-premises. The difference on AWS is that, if the ArcGIS Server site Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances are deployed in an AWS Auto Scaling group, you must remove them from the Auto Scaling group before you upgrade.
Follow these steps to remove all EC2 instances from the Auto Scaling group.
- Sign in to AWS Management Console and find the Auto Scaling group associated with your ArcGIS Server site.
The Auto Scaling group includes the name of the CloudFormation stack. You can also open instance management for the group and confirm the EC2 instances in the group participate in your site.
- Change the minimum capacity and maximum capacity properties of the stack's Auto Scaling group to 0.
- Remove all the EC2 instances from the Auto Scaling group.
- Change the desired capacity property of the Auto Scaling group to 0.
Once you remove all EC2 instances, delete the Auto Scaling group to prevent anyone from adding the instances back after the ArcGIS Server site is upgraded.
Now you can follow instructions in the installation guide to upgrade the ArcGIS Server site. Read the instructions specific to the operating system on your EC2 instances:
- Installation guide for ArcGIS Server (Linux)
- Installation guide for ArcGIS Server (Windows)
Upgrade using Chef scripts
If you created the ArcGIS Server site using a 10.8 or 10.8.1 Esri Amazon Web Services CloudFormation template, you can upgrade using Chef scripts.
Upgrade steps are different for deployments on Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu. Follow the instructions applicable to the operating system of your deployment.
Upgrade a site on Windows
Follow these steps to use Chef to upgrade an ArcGIS Server site on Windows Amazon EC2 instances.
Adjust the Auto Scaling group settings
Follow these steps to remove all EC2 instances from the Auto Scaling group.
- Sign in to AWS Management Console and find the Auto Scaling group associated with the ArcGIS Server site.
- Change the minimum capacity and maximum capacity properties of the stack's Auto Scaling group to 0.
- Remove all the EC2 instances from the Auto Scaling group.
- Change the desired capacity property of the Auto Scaling group to 0.
Once you remove all EC2 instances, delete the Auto Scaling group to prevent anyone from adding the instances back after the ArcGIS Server site is upgraded.
Download the Chef client and ArcGIS Server to all EC2 instances and upgrade
Sign in to each of the EC2 instances in the ArcGIS Server site to install the Chef client, install the latest version of ArcGIS Server, and upgrade.
- Make a remote desktop connection to the first EC2 instance in the ArcGIS Server site.
- Download and install a supported Chef or Cinc client.
See the ArcGIS Cookbook compatibility matrix for supported versions.
- Download the following ArcGIS Server 11.4 installation files from your account in My Esri and upload the files to a folder on the EC2 instance.
- ArcGIS_Server_Windows_114_192938.exe
- ArcGIS_Server_Windows_114_192938.exe.001
- Obtain an ArcGIS GIS Server or ArcGIS Image Server 11.4 authorization file and place it in a local folder on the EC2 instance or a file share that you can access from the EC2 instance.
- Download the ArcGIS Cookbook version 5.0.0 (arcgis-5.0.0-cookbooks.zip) to the EC2 instance, unzip the file, and place the contents of the unzipped file in the C:\chef folder.
- Delete the C:\chef\nodes folder.
- Create a copy of your original C:\chef\node.json file and rename it to upgrade_server_windows.json.
- Open the upgrade_server_windows.json file in a text editor.
- Set the ArcGIS version to 11.4.
"arcgis" : { "version": "11.4", - Specify the location where you placed the ArcGIS Server authorization file.
"arcgis" : { "server": { "authorization_file" : "<drive>\\<folder>" - Set the ArcGIS archive repository to the folder where you placed the software file on the EC2 instance.
"arcgis" : { "repository": { "archives": "<drive>\\<folder>" - Modify the run list to use the following recipe only:
"recipe[arcgis-enterprise::server]"
- Set the ArcGIS version to 11.4.
- Save and close the upgrade-server_windows.json file.
- Open a command line window as an administrator, change the directory to C:\chef, and run the following command: chef-client -z -j c:\chef\upgrade-server_windows.json.
- If there is more than one EC2 instance in the ArcGIS Server site, make a remote desktop connection to the next EC2 instance and repeat steps 2 through 11 until all instances are upgraded.
Upgrade a site on Ubuntu
Follow these steps to use Chef to upgrade an ArcGIS Server site on Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instances.
Adjust the Auto Scaling group settings
Follow these steps to remove all EC2 instances from the Auto Scaling group.
- Sign in to AWS Management Console and find the Auto Scaling group associated with the ArcGIS Server site.
- Change the minimum capacity and maximum capacity properties of the stack's Auto Scaling group to 0.
- Remove all the EC2 instances from the Auto Scaling group.
- Change the desired capacity property of the Auto Scaling group to 0.
Once you remove all EC2 instances, delete the Auto Scaling group to prevent anyone from adding the instances back after the ArcGIS Server site is upgraded.
Download the Chef client and ArcGIS Server to all EC2 instances and upgrade
Sign in to each of the EC2 instances in the ArcGIS Server site to install the Chef client, install the latest version of ArcGIS Server, and upgrade.
- As the ubuntu user, make an SSH connection to the first EC2 instance in the ArcGIS Server site.
- Use one of the following commands to download and install a supported Chef or Cinc client.
See the ArcGIS Cookbook compatibility matrix for supported versions. Replace the version number text in the following statements with the client version you install, for example 18.30.
- Chef client: sudo curl -L https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -v <version_number>
- Cinc client: sudo curl -L https://omnitruck.cinc.sh/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -v <version_number>
- Download the ArcGIS Server 11.4 installation file (ArcGIS_Server_Linux_114_192977.tar.gz) from your account in My Esri and upload the files to a folder on the EC2 instance.
- Obtain an ArcGIS GIS Server or ArcGIS Image Server 11.4 authorization file and place it in a local folder on the EC2 instance or a file share that you can access from the EC2 instance.
- Download the ArcGIS Cookbook version 5.0.0 (arcgis-5.0.0-cookbooks.tar.gz) to the EC2 instance, untar and unzip the file, and place the files contents in the /var/chef directory.
- Create a copy of your original /etc/chef/node.json file and rename it to upgrade_server_linux.json.
- Open the upgrade_server_linux.json file in a text editor.
- Set the ArcGIS version to 11.4.
"arcgis" : { "version": "11.4", - Specify the location where you placed the ArcGIS Server authorization file.
"arcgis" : { "server": { "authorization_file" : "/<folder>/<subfolder>" - Set the ArcGIS archive repository to the folder where you placed the software file on the EC2 instance.
"arcgis" : { "repository": { "archives": "/<folder>/<subfolder>" - Modify the run list to use the following recipe only:
"recipe[arcgis-enterprise::server]"
- Set the ArcGIS version to 11.4.
- Save and close the upgrade-server_windows.json file.
- As the ubuntu user, change the directory to /var/chef, and run the following command: chef-client -z -j /etc/chef/upgrade-server_linuxs.json.
- If there is more than one EC2 instance in the ArcGIS Server site, make an SSH connection to the next EC2 instance and repeat steps 2 through 9 until all instances are upgraded.
Upgrade using a CloudFormation template
If you used a 10.9, 10.9.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, or 11.3 CloudFormation template provided by Esri to create an ArcGIS Server site, you can use the corresponding 11.4 upgrade template to upgrade it.
The following table lists corresponding deployment and upgrade templates and provides links to instructions for using the upgrade templates:
| 10.9, 10.9.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, or 11.3 deployment template | 11.4 upgrade template | Instructions to use upgrade template |
|---|---|---|
arcgis-server-singlemachine.template.json | arcgis-server-singlemachine-upgrade.template.json | Upgrade a single-machine ArcGIS Server site using CloudFormation |
arcgis-server-ha.template.json | arcgis-server-ha-upgrade.template.json | Upgrade a highly available ArcGIS Server site using CloudFormation |