ArcGIS Desktop has encountered a serious problem.. needs to close

I have faced "ArcGIS desktop has encountered a serious problem..." in Windows XP and Windows 7.  I have tried with ArcGIS 9.3.1 and ArcGIS 10, same issue..

Finally, the issue was with the monitoring tool installed in those machines..  These montioring tools blocking the arcmap.exe, arccatalog.exe.   After making exclusion flags in the monitoring tools, it is working fine.......   

cannot open server.properties - HTTP Status 404 /arcgis/rest: The requested resource (/arcgis/rest/) is not available

I recently faced this issue in ArcGIS Server Java 931.  I have installed server 931 and tested the REST services, it was working fine.

But the next day, i am not sure what happened or change in the server machine.  If I hit the
http://hostname:8399/arcgis/rest/services

It is showing "Not available".. in the error log (..prgfiles/arcgis/..java/../log), it shows the following error as Sever
e "cannot open server.properties".

I tried all the suggestions given in the ESRI site, nothing working.. Finally, I did post install once again, now it is working.

Batch geocoding using Google or Yahoo.. Free service

http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/

This site provides option to give comma / tab separated addresses to do geocode.  It does bulk geocoding of 1000 addresses at a time.

Also, it allows to select the geocode service - Google or Yahoo.

It provides output as longitude, latitude, standardised address, geocode level (street, address, city, zip et.,)

TeleAtlas Multinet - Merging NA gecoding files.

TeleAtlas Multinet version provides the geocoding shapes for all states in US and Canada.  I merged around 5 gc shp files.. but the results in the attributes were not merged properly.  The attribute data are mixed with different columns.

My friend suggested me to create a File Geodatabase through Catalog and then try to merge all gc shp files of North America............   It worked fine..... no issue after merging and compressed well...

From the ESRI sites, it seems that the shape file has the limitation of 2GB..

Anyhow, I learned a new thing, and thought share with you all......

Could not start ArcSDE -- Check Network, $SDEHOME disk, DBMS settings.

I have tried to install ArcSDE 9.3 in Windows XP machine, while starting the service I got this error.  In the ESRI site, the windows xp is not listed as supported OS for ArcSDE.

-- update on 11th june 2012.  actually the issue was with the oracle client.  Today, I installed oracle 10g 10.2 Run time components option  (out of four options, -instant client, administrator, run time components, customer) in the installer option.

I installed in Windows 2003/windows 7 machine, Oracle Client 10.2 and ArcSDE 9.3, 9.3.1, and patch file.  It got installed without any problem and I was able to start the service.

BareTail - A free real-time log file monitoring tool

Easy way to monitor the ArcGIS server health.  I came across a new tool called "BareTail".

It is one of the good free tool to read the ArcGIS server logs....

http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/

It is very easy to monitor the server logs using this tool..

Batch - Network analysis using Arcmap and NA extension

I faced a problem in performing batch process for 50k pairs of addresses (lat.long), to find the driving distance.   I have got a good input for this task,

http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/12128-add-origin-amp-destination-locations-from-the-same-row-to-a-route-analysis-layer?highlight=routename

The above forum link explains how to achieve bulk process in a single click.....

I tried with 50k address sets, ArcMap is able to do process without any issue.