The geometry service helps applications do geometric calculations such as buffering, simplifying, calculating areas and lengths, and projecting. Before you can use the geometry service in your application development, you must start the service. You can do this in ArcGIS Server Manager.
Start the geometry service
Follow these steps to start the geometry service in ArcGIS Server Manager:
- Open Server Manager and sign in to your ArcGIS Server site. If you need help with this step, see the topic Log in to Manager.
- Click Services > Manage Services.
- In the Services module, click the Utilities folder.
- Locate the geometry service in the Utilities folder and click the Start icon
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Your geometry service is started.
Configure multiple instances of the geometry service
Only one geometry service can exist in an ArcGIS Server site. However, you can configure multiple instances of the service to run at the same time.
Follow these steps to start multiple instances of the geometry service:
- Click the Edit icon
next to the geometry service name and choose Pooling. - Increase the Maximum number of instances per machine value.
For more information about pooling, see Tune and configure services.