Managing the maintenance tasks associated with your spatial databases and applications can be tedious and time consuming. This talk will focus on features available with FME Desktop and FME Server that can help automate maintenance tasks and monitor your system for issues.

1. System Administration
Using FME
Daniel Wortham
Avenue Informatics, LLC

2. There are many avenues to accomplishing
what I’m about to discuss…
FME just happens to be a great one.

3. Today’s treatment
1. The case for administrative tasks
2. Desktop Example: Spatial Index
Administration
3. Server Example: Spatial Index
Administration
4. Example: Slack notifications
5. Final thoughts
6. Questions?
System Detox

4. FME Amin Spa
Administrators need
spa treatment too…
So many options…why FME?
Common tools available to the
geodatabase administrator:
● SSMS (SQL Server Agent)
● ArcCatalog
● Python
● PgAdmin
● Etc…

5. Why FME?
I believe the two most compelling reasons for using FME for system
admin tasks is…
● Simplicity
● Transparency
FME Server provides the opportunity to create a Common Operational
Picture (COP) for your organization’s geospatial platform. A single
place for all stakeholders to see all your administration, integration,
and on-demand data transformations in one place.

6. Example:
Spatial Index Maintenance

7. Spatial Index Maintenance
GOAL #1: Create an FME Workspace that…
1. Allows user input for one or more databases
2. Allows user input for one or more schemas
3. Establishes a naming schema for spatial indexes
4. Drops and recreates all spatial indexes that meet the user input criteria
GOAL #2: Create an FME Server Automation that…
1. Rebuilds spatial indexes either daily or weekly
2. Notifies an administrator of job failure via Slack

8. Spatial Index Maintenance

9. Spatial Index Maintenance

10. Spatial Index Maintenance

11. Spatial Index Maintenance Automated

12. Spatial Index Maintenance Automated
Slack notifications

13. FME Desktop provides a great way to create
parameterized administration tasks like our
Spatial Index example.
FME Server automations not only allow for
convenient scheduling, but provide greater
transparency to your organization’s stakeholders.

14. Thank you!
Daniel.Wortham@avenue-i.com