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Run the indexing service in JIRA in an isolated thread

unknown

Hello everyone,

We have developed a script that we use as a Reindex Service that runs every minute.

How can we run it in an isolated thread, so Jira does not go down, in case of any problem with reindexing. Can you help me, please?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,

Almu

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Moses Thomas_08kyb0

@[deleted]In my opinion it is not a good idea to run indexing every minute, why because in case you have a large JIRA instance , this will drastically reduce JIRA performance. my advice to you is to perform indexing like once a day in your production ( lets say at night when less user are accessing Jira)

Even better run a background indexing see REST API documentation https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-trigger-re-indexing-using-rest-request-via-curl-command-663617587.html, you can add it in your script in the case where you use linux/unixlike server and use cron tab in linux/Unixlike servers to define when reindexing should be triggered automatically.

Best!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Ok, while the principle of "index in another thread" is a good abstract idea, your question scares me.

Why are you doing this?

Indexing is not something you should ever have to think about in Jira. Questions starting with "I want to index" are almost always posted by people who are trying to do really bad things in Jira (inadvertently, as they don't understand the internals, and are trying to do something in a way they haven't realised is totally wrong)

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Moses Thomas_08kyb0

Best!

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Ok, while the principle of "index in another thread" is a good abstract idea, your question scares me.

Why are you doing this?

unknown

Hi Moses Thomas,

I have inherited this Jira Server, and someone created a groovy script that runs as a Service in Jira. Look:

Reindex Service com.onresolve.jira.groovy.GroovyService

input-file: /mnt/nas/jira/ReindexService.groovy

Schedule 0 0/1 * 1/1 * ? *

I am not sure whether the best option is to delete this service or schedule it in this way

0 59 23 * * *

What is your opinion, please?

Thx & BR,

ALmu

unknown

Hi Nic,

I have inherited this Jira Server, and someone created a groovy script that runs as a Service in Jira, every minute. I do not know why this was done. In your opinion, do I have to delete this service because Jira does reindexing automatically when needed?

Thx & BR,

Almu

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

@[deleted]I will suggest you schedule is daily.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Before you delete it, you really should find out why they did this.

My best guess is they were hiding a massive problem that they've created elsewhere.

You may only be able to identify that by stopping it running, and seeing what goes wrong!

But in the long run, yes, absolutely, you need rid of this completely, it's a very poor practice and totally unneccessary.

unknown

Thanks

bibin.koshy

Hi @Moses Thomas and @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I would like to use this API call specified on this doc to re-index jira server through linux terminal.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/reindex-jira-server-using-rest-api-via-curl-command-663617587.html?_ga=2.225356698.1460643556.1572270390-554649307.1572270390

Just one question, i am getting "authentication failure" when i try and get this working. I just use root without any password, so how would i run this?

curl -u root:password -X POST $JIRAURL/rest/api/2/reindex?type=FOREGROUND

Kind regards,

--Bibin

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