Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Troubleshooting in production

Before we go any further here, let's discuss where you should troubleshoot. When something goes wrong with your scripted process in production, you may be tempted to quickly try and troubleshoot the problem there, in your production environment.

Be very careful troubleshooting in production!

Troubleshooting an issue in production can be risky. I'm not going to say not to do it because many GIS shops only have production and don't have the luxury of test and development environments. However, if you must troubleshoot in production, try to isolate your outputs as much as you can.

For example, if your script writes data out to your production enterprise geodatabase, try to have a second enterprise geodatabase stood ...