Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Utilizing the ArcGIS Server REST Administrator Directory

The ArcGIS Server REST Administrator Directory, or REST Admin, as it will be herein referred to, is a powerful way to manage all aspects of ArcGIS Server administration, as it exposes every administrative task that ArcGIS Server supports. Remember from earlier that the API is organized into resources and operations. Resources are settings within ArcGIS Server and operations act those resources to update their information or change their well-defined state usually through a HTTP GET or POST method.

HTTP GET requests data from a resource while HTTP POST submits data to be processed to a resource. In other words, GET retrieves data, POST inserts/updates data.

An example of a resource is ...