Abstract

Challenges of Maintaining Internet Mapping Service in a Military Environment
Track: Defense and Intelligence
Authors: Kolade Ayorinde, James Batcheller

The Army Range Mapper (ARM) distributes worldwide GIS data to soldiers, trainers, planners and range control personnel. The ARM is one of the most utilized support web resources in the U.S. Army Europe community.
The application, based on ArcGIS Server 931 JavaScript resides in a secured multi-tiered environment, served by ArcGIS Server Image Extension 9.3.1, ArcSDE 9.3.1 Direct Connect (Oracle 10g/11g client), Oracle 10gR2 and IIS 6.0. It provides web mapping capabilities, data analysis and presentation tools.

The distributed environment presents significant advances in performance; however it also poses significant risks. This situation often creates point(s) of failure, resulting from updates, patches or security policy interventions which are periodically applied to the systems or servers, which can disrupt or bring down the running of the web-application. This presentation highlights numerous issues that have been encountered since deployment, how the issues were resolved and efforts made to have uninterrupted uptime.