This blog post is for you if you find the following warnings in Sitecore logs:
[Index=<indexname>] Crawling Paused[Index=<indexname>] Synchronous Indexing Strategy is disabled while indexing is paused.IndexingStateSwitcher: Indexing is not resumed since indexes have not been initialized yet…Exception: SolrNet.Exceptions.SolrConnectionException, Message: Unable to connect to the remote server
You can see from these log messages that something is really not right with Solr or SolrCloud.
What happened in my case:
- Sitecore could not reach our SolrCloud
- After the second try Sitecore paused indexing for each indexes
- After Sitecore could reach our SolrCloud again, it tried to initialize the indexes but it failed for one index because of a wrong configuration (typo in the core name)
- Because of the failure of one index, Sitecore kept the indexing paused
How did I diagnose this? I implemented a small Razor view where I asked the following things from Sitecore:
- Current status of Solr connection
- Last status of Solr connection which saved
- Get Solr indexes and their IsInitialized property
- If an index is IsInitialized=false, then tried to initialize
| @using System.Reflection | |
| @using Sitecore.ContentSearch | |
| @using Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider | |
| @using Sitecore.ContentSearch.SolrProvider.Agents | |
| <html> | |
| <body> | |
| Solr Status: @SolrStatus.OkSolrStatus() | |
| <br /> | |
| Solr Last Status: @typeof(IndexingStateSwitcher).GetField("lastSolrConnectionStatus", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy).GetValue(null) | |
| <br /> | |
| Solr Indexes | |
| <table> | |
| <thead> | |
| <tr> | |
| <th>Name</th> | |
| <th>IsInitialized</th> | |
| </tr> | |
| </thead> | |
| <tbody> | |
| @foreach (AbstractSearchIndex index in ContentSearchManager.Indexes) | |
| { | |
| <tr> | |
| <td>@index.Name</td> | |
| <td>@index.IsInitialized</td> | |
| @if (!index.IsInitialized) | |
| { | |
| index.Initialize(); | |
| } | |
| </tr> | |
| } | |
| </tbody> | |
| </table> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
I copied this file to the production CM server (it does not cause an application restart) to the sitecore/admin folder and then called the <domain>/sitecore/admin/solr-diagnostic.cshtml.
Don’t forget to delete this file after you are done with the diagnose!
Hi Tamas,
This is exactly what I’ve observed in my own environment. It’s initialising indexes that I no longer need. Would you by chance know how I can disbable initialisation of those indexes or disable them all together? I haven’t been able to find a definitive guide and Sitecore support doesn’t seem too helpful either.
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