Programmatically start and stop map services with Python

Question

Is it possible to programmatically stop and start ArcGIS Server map services using Python?

Answer 1

For individual services, such as you could command-line to maintain ArcIMS? No; there is a commandline tool you can download from the Code Gallery (AGSSOM) that gives you the core of major areas.

But there is no granular 'service specific' level control that you can use at this time to Start/Stop/Refresh/Add/Remove AGS services. There is on ideas.arcgis.com several places with requests to improve control of services from a more automatable location.

Answer 2

For those that are interested, using AGSSOM as recommended by D.E. Wright, I've put together the following code. This will stop all services allowing you to perform necessary geodatabase tasks, and then restart previously running services.

import os, subprocess

#Get list of currently running map services
stream = os.popen('D:\GIS\Admin\AGSSOMv10.0\AGSSOM.exe -list')
mapservices = stream.readlines()
lstStarted = []

for item in mapservices:
    itemSplit = item.split(',')
    if len(itemSplit) > 1:
        if itemSplit[1].find("Started.") > -1:
            lstStarted.append(itemSplit[0])

#Shutdown all map services
subprocess.call(['D:\GIS\Admin\AGSSOMv10.0\AGSSOM.exe', '-x', '*all*'])

##...Perfom geodatabase tasks here

#Restart previously running map services
for mapservice in lstStarted:
    subprocess.call(['D:\GIS\Admin\AGSSOMv10.0\AGSSOM.exe', '-s', mapservice])

Answer 3

In the same vein as what Jeff Berry posted in his answer, I wrote a small function that will manage the map services using the AGSSOM tools. In my case I call services individually by name, stopping and starting one at a time.

import subprocess

def manageMapServices(command, svc, svcType):
    PathToAGSSOM = r"C:\Windows\AGSSOMUtils\AGSSOM"
    server = "AGSSOM"
    p = subprocess.Popen(PathToAGSSOM + " " + server + " " + command + " " + svc + " " + svcType)
    p.wait()

Then, you can call a service by name using -x to stop and -s to start:

manageMapServices("-s", "Folder/Service", "MapServer")