Himmat Singh Dulawat (3x Sitecore MVP)

If you are on Sitecore Managed Cloud and your SOLR is with Managed Cloud Server Searchstax then it is not easy to manage it. In today’s blog, I am going to discuss how to manage Managed Cloud SOLR Server, especially Restart SOLR. After successfully setting up Sitecore and SOLR instance by Sitecore, Sitecore provides you the URL of SOLR Server and the following details: Solr server connection string Solr server URL Zookeeper Ensemble API key Solr server user Solr server password To access the SOLR admin UI: Open the https://<server_name>-azure.searchstax.com/solr/ URL and enter the Username and Password. Get a List of Nodes: Before doing this exercise, you need to find the number of nodes in your SOLR server (a standard server consists of 3 nodes). For example, if your server_name provided by Sitecore is "ss123456" then ideally your nodes will be ss123456-1, ss123456-2, ss123456-3. By using the below URL, you can ...

While rebuilding the index on your Sitecore CMS you may face scenarios where indexing data not populating in website search functionality, search stopped working, or slowdown. After completion of indexing again search functionality returns the results. Here Sitecore introduces the very nice concept of SwitchOnRebuild. To understand it assume you have two cores for your Sitecore index active and passive. It means when you rebuild the Active index Sitecore will return the result using the Passive index and after rebuilding Sitecore will switch the Active index to serve the results. It’s a concept of switching of Sitecore index during the rebuild of the particular index to avoid downtime and search unavailability. Recently when I was working on one migration project, when I deployed an application on the Azure Paas environment. I faced a similar type of issue while rebuilding the index it was throwing me the below error: Job started: Index_Update_IndexNa...