Create Service utility

The Create Service utility allows you to publish a service from the command line. A service definition (.sd) file is required.

Parameters

Parameter	Details
-u	The name of an ArcGIS Server user who will execute the utility. The user must have the appropriate level of privileges to execute the action.
-p	The password of the user who was specified with the -u parameter.
-s	The URL of the site, in the format http://myserver:6080.
-f	The path to the service definition file.
-C	Optional. The cluster on which to deploy the service. If not specified, the default cluster is used.
-F	Optional. The GIS server folder in which to deploy the service.
-n	Optional. The name for the service, if you want to override the name contained in the service definition.
-t	Passes the token to the server when the utility is executed. If this parameter is omitted, HTTP authentication is used.
-h	Prints help for the utility.

Examples

The following example creates a service named Yellowstone at the root level of the server using the file Yellowstone.sd.

<Python installation location>\python.exe "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\tools\admin\createservice.py" -u admin -p admin -s http://gisserver.domain.com:6080 -f "c:\data\Yellowstone\Yellowstone.sd" -t -n Yellowstone

The following example creates a service named San Diego in the folder RegionalPlanning.

<Python installation location>\python.exe "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\tools\admin\createservice.py" -u admin -p admin -s http://gisserver.domain.com:6080 -f "c:\data\SanDiego\SanDiego.sd" -t -F RegionalPlanning -n SanDiego