Verify Search index creation

We can confirm the initial Search index creation has completed successfully by checking for the presence of specific files in the index directory.

To verify the initial index creation is complete:

Check the INDEX.READY and CRAWLING_VERSION files are present in the index directory.

By default, the Search index is stored in the search/index subdirectory of the Connections data directory defined at install time, for example...

/opt/IBM/Connections/data/local/search/index

Initial index creation is complete when both files are present in the index directory. Note that this means the Search index is fully built; the social analytics index is not yet built.

If the deployment has a single Search node only: No further action is required.

If wer deployment has multiple Search nodes: Verify the Search index was successfully copied to the remaining nodes.

Parent topic:
Verify Search

Related:
Restore the Search index
Configure verbose logging
Verify that Search is crawling regularly
Verify the index is being built incrementally
Verify file content extraction