HowTos/RebuildIndex

Rebuilding the search indexes for all users

When upgrading from versions of Scalix 11 earlier than 11.0.3, it can be necessary to recreate the full-text index. The indexing process will consume more system resources than normal server operations; therefore it is recommended to consider whether to run this procedure or not. Also, we recommend to run this procedure at times of low system usage:

To reset and recreate the indexes for the message store, use the following steps:

• Shutdown the Scalix Mail Server and Scalix Tomcat:

/etc/init.d/scalix-tomcat stop; omshut

• Delete the index and the work queue files:

rm -rf /var/opt/scalix/??/indexes/*
rm -rf /var/opt/scalix/??/s/indexwork/*

• Restart the Scalix Mail Server and Scalix Tomcat:

/etc/init.d/scalix-tomcat start; omrc

• Initiate Indexing for the message store:

sxmkindex -r 0

Note: The man page for sxmkindex contain further options, e.g. to run reindexing by user only. In addition, the Admin Guide has information on how to throttle indexer load on a large and loaded system.

Rebuilding the search index for a specific user

To reset the index for a particular user:

• Identify the user's unique index id

omshowu -n "User Name" | grep ^SIS | cut -d "/" -f 4

• Delete the user's index directory

rm -Rf /var/opt/scalix/??/indexes/ID

where ID was obtained from the previous step

• Initiate indexing for the user's mailbox

sxmkindex -r 0 "User Name"