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Disable index on other nodes after manual upgrade

Egidijus Pazikas
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October 7, 2025

Hello,

Doing an upgrade now and wondering what is best practice or if this idea is good?

Basically, upgraded Jira from 10.5.1 to 10.7.4. First node is up and running, however when starting 2nd (upgraded) node it acquires index lock and starts indexing.

In our environment it can take like 4-5 hours. (3 nodes thats 12 hours)

How to disable this startup index? (via setvenv or jira.properties) so that I can stard other nodes without indexing and then perform full re-index (or use copy index function in jira itself) when all nodes are up and running?

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Jayesh Raghuvanshi
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October 8, 2025

@Egidijus Pazikas 

You can use the below parameter in setenv.sh file to stop the automatic re-index while startup

JVM_SUPPORT_RECOMMENDED_ARGS="-Dcom.atlassian.jira.startup.allow.full.reindex=false -Dcom.atlassian.jira.startup.rebuild.local.index=false"

Add the below parameter in jira-config.properties

 

upgrade.reindex.allowed=false

Reference Atlassian KB Artilce:  https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/practical-guide-on-upgrading-jira-data-center-to-version-9-and-lts-1216583605.html

Note: Remove the parameters once the upgrade activities are completed.

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Thanks
Jayesh R

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Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM
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October 7, 2025

Hi @Egidijus Pazikas 

 

It's in the startup script the setenv.sh or setenv.bat you can add 

-Dcom.atlassian.jira.startup.rebuild.local.index=false 

To disable the auto reindex at startup.  This is safe to do if you are going to do a full index later.

This doc may shed some light,  https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/index-startup-procedure-in-jira-9-4-and-later-1217301669.html

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