Start or Stop an ArcGIS Server Service (ArcPy Script)

stop_start_services.py

# Sample script to start/stop ArcGIS Server service

# import modules
import arcpy, os, sys, time, datetime, urllib, urllib2, json

# generate token for server
def gentoken(server, port, adminUser, adminPass, expiration=60):
    # Re-usable function to get a token required for Admin changes
    query_dict = {'username':   adminUser,
                  'password':   adminPass,
                  'expiration': str(expiration),
                  'client':     'requestip'}

    query_string = urllib.urlencode(query_dict)
    url = "https://{}:{}/arcgis/admin/generateToken".format(server, port)
    token = json.loads(urllib.urlopen(url + "?f=json", query_string).read())

    if "token" not in token:
        message = '\n{}\n'.format(token['messages'])
        return message
    else:
        return token['token']
# end gentoken

# start or stop services in a list
def stopStartServices(server, port, adminUser, adminPass, stopStart, service, token=None):
    ''' Function to stop, start or delete a service.
    Requires Admin user/password, as well as server and port (necessary to construct token if one does not exist).
    stopStart = Stop|Start|Delete
    service = A REST service; must be in the <name>.<type> notation
    If a token exists, you can pass one in for use.
    '''
    # container for messages
    # function returns message that can be added to log file
    message = ''

    # Get and set the token
    if token is None:
        token = gentoken(server, port, adminUser, adminPass)
    else:
        pass

    # modify the service
    service = urllib.quote(service.encode('utf8'))
    op_service_url = "https://{}:{}/arcgis/admin/services/{}/{}?token={}&f=json".format(server, port, service, stopStart, token)
    status = urllib2.urlopen(op_service_url, ' ').read()

    if 'success' in status:
        message += '\n{} === {}\n'.format(service, stopStart)
    else:
        message += '\n{}\n'.format(status)

    return message
# end stopStartServices

# Attempt to run geoprocessing tools
try:
  # Time stamp variables
  currentTime = datetime.datetime.now()
  # Format date as 3-24-2017
  dateToday = currentTime.strftime("%m-%d-%Y")
  # placeholder for messages for text file
  logMsg = ''
  # Create text file for logging results of script
  logFile = r'C:\Scripts\Logs\Directory\Start_Stop_Services_Report_{}.txt'.format(dateToday)
  
  agsServer = 'Server Name'
  port = '0000'
  username = 'username'
  password = 'password'
  map_service = 'SomeService.MapServer'
  
  # Generate token for server
    logMsg += 'Generating ArcGIS Server token\n'
    token = gentoken(agsServer,port,username,password)
    logMsg += '\nGenerated token is {}\n'.format(token)

    # stop service
    logMsg += '\nStopping {} service\n'.format(map_service)
    stopServicesMessages = stopStartServices(agsServer,port,username,password,'Stop',map_service,token)
    # get messages from stop services function
    logMsg += '\n{}\n'.format(stopServicesMessages)
    
    # Do other stuff here
    
    # start service
    logMsg += '\Starting {} service\n'.format(map_service)
    startServicesMessages = stopStartServices(agsServer,port,username,password,'Start',map_service,token)
    # get messages from stop services function
    logMsg += '\n{}\n'.format(startServicesMessages)
# If an error occurs running geoprocessing tool(s) capture error and write message
# handle error outside of Python system
except EnvironmentError as e:
    tbE = sys.exc_info()[2]
    # Write the line number the error occured to the log file
    logMsg += "\nFailed at Line {}\n".format(tbE.tb_lineno)
    # Write the error message to the log file
    logMsg += "Error: {}\n".format(str(e))
except Exception as e:
    # If an error occurred, write line number and error message to log
    tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
    logMsg += "\nFailed at Line {}\n".format(tb.tb_lineno)
    logMsg += "Error: {}".format(e.message)
finally:
    # write message to log file
    try:
        with open(logFile, 'w') as f:
            f.write(str(logMsg))
    except:
        pass