ArcIMS 9.1 Issues - Follow up
As many of you have read in the posting previous to this one, I have been doing a lot more direct connections to ArcSDE from ArcIMS. We'll I've been having a bit of trouble with a few things, but no big deal....However I did discover a few new things about ArcIMS 9.1.
I read about a new parameter for connection to ArcSDE on the ArcIMS whats new page:
"For Image and Feature services that use ArcSDE data, a new feature parameter defines the time interval between attempts to reconnect to ArcSDE when the SDE server becomes unavailable."
wOOt! Sounds great to me, so I go looking for it. Looks like its located in the %arcims install dir%\server\etc\aimssdeio.cfg. Open up that file and look at the new parameter connectioncheckinterval="300". First thing that came to mind for me was this is could be why it was taking my mapservices so freaking long to refresh (see this post for more info). I don't know that for sure, but I'm guessing that it is, so I immediately lowered that number to 20. I'll let you know what happens.
The next thing I noticed was a new log file getting created in that same etc directory called sdedc_SQL Server.log. Of course I check it out, because I am all about log files. Its a great start to just have a log file specifically for direct connections, but this didn't really contain a whole lot of useful information.
IDBInitialize::Initialize Failed CAN'T OPEN INSTANCE: sde:sqlserver. Spatial Engine Connection Failed (-9).
Yeah, I already know that. Thanks for nuttin. But, I applaud ESRI for recognizing the need for that log file, and I hope that with future releases, we'll get some more info. By the way, I left encrypted="true" in my sdeworkspace - and thats what threw the error above.
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