Owners of imagery layers with publishing privileges and administrators can stop and start the service exposed by the layer.
If server object extensions (SOEs) and server object interceptors (SOIs) have been added to your organization, you can enable the extensions on imagery layers from the item page. To learn more, see Extend services.
Start and stop services
When administering imagery layers, you may need to start and stop services.
Start a service
Starting a service makes it available for client access. When you start a service, the server initiates the minimum number of instances you specified. As clients request the service, the server returns an available instance. If no instances are currently available, the server initiates more instances to meet demand until the maximum number of instances is reached. At this point, any new clients that make a request for the service are placed in a queue for the next available instance.
To start a service, complete the following steps:
- Sign in to the organization as the item owner with publishing privileges or as an administrator.
- Open the item page for the imagery layer.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Go to the Imagery Layer section.
- Click the Start button.
The service you selected starts. If the Start button is unavailable, the service has already started and is running.
Stop a service
When you stop a service, the server immediately removes all instances of that service from the server. This frees up any machine resources that were dedicated to the service. Clients that were using the service may fail to work properly because the service is no longer available.
To stop a service, complete the following steps:
- Sign in to the organization as the item owner with publishing privileges or as an administrator.
- Open the item page for the imagery layer.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Go to the Imagery Layer section.
- Click the Stop button, and click the Stop Service button in the pop-up window.
The service you selected stops. If the Stop button is unavailable, the service has already stopped.