Jira indexing script not working

[Hemanth Rajagopal Nagarajan]

We have the following crontab expression executing on our Jira instance every Friday night:

00 03 * * 5 bash /root/rebuild_jira_index.sh >>/root/rebuild_jira_index.log 2>&1

The /root/rebuild_jira_index.sh script performs the following steps:

1. stop the Jira application service;
2. delete the Jira index files;
3. start the Jira application service;
4. sleep until Jira is in status=RUNNING;
5. issue a full re-index request via the Jira REST API.

It appears that the re-index command is not succeeding.

[Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__]

What is your reindex command? Did you try the one mentioned on this page? https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/reindex-jira-server-using-rest-api-via-curl-command-663617587.html

[Hemanth Rajagopal Nagarajan]

curl -n -X POST https://jira.xxxxxxxxx.com/rest/api/2/reindex?type=FOREGROUND

[Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__]

You definitelly need to authenticate user (jira-administrator) to invoke this endpoint

[Hemanth Rajagopal Nagarajan]

Thanks Martin,

I will definitely try that and get back.

[Hemanth Rajagopal Nagarajan]

But Martin, 

It was able to execute the script without any credentials in curl command previously. Is this a new update ?

[Hemanth Rajagopal Nagarajan]

The script : 

# shut down jira service
while [[ $(pgrep java) ]]
do
sudo service jira stop
sleep 30
done

# remove index files
# https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/unable-to-rebuild-jira-application-indexes-228623566.html
sudo rm -rf /var/atlassian/application-data/jira/caches/indexesV1/

# start up jira service
sudo service jira start

# wait until jira is ready to serve
# https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-63928
# https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/confluence-data-center-technical-overview-612959401.html
while [[ ! $(curl -s https://jira.xxxxxxx.com/status | grep RUNNING) ]]
do
sleep 600
done

# trigger full foreground re-index
curl -n -X POST https://jira.xxxxxxxxx.com/rest/api/2/reindex?type=FOREGROUND

[Martin Bayer _MoroSystems_ s_r_o__]

Hm that's weird, documentation says that you need to have Admin permission to execute this endpoint. If there is no authentication, there is no permission. Your script also removes index files so I guess FOREGROUND reindex should not work. Can you try to rebuilt index manually after startup? Is foreground reindex option available?

[Hemanth Rajagopal Nagarajan]

Yes i am able to do foreground re index manually. 

Also i am running this script from the instance instance itself as root.