Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Navigating the REST Admin

At first glance, the REST Admin seems very plain in design, and it is. Remember that it is meant to be primarily accessed programmatically, not through a user interface. For this reason, the interface is simply pages of links to resources and operations with plain web forms for making configuration edits and changes. As previously stated, the API structure is hierarchical (the API Reference will help you navigate this), and you are safe just navigating around following links up and down resources and operations. Typically, to make an actual change, you must get into an operation page and click on a button, such as Edit, Update, or Delete. Supported Operations will always be listed at the bottom of a page. The following ...