Manual for standalone solr index

[Former Member]

Hi, is there a detailed manual for changing the solr indexing from embedded into standalone for hybris 5.4?

Rg, John

[Former Member]

Unfortunately not... but it can be done quite easily by impex, or if you're just testing you can do it in the hMC.

Here's an impex example I did a while ago. It actually supports both embedded and standalone, depending on a configuration property "solr.standlone.mode". So you can use it for dev and prod.

 enter code here#% if: Config.getBoolean("solr.standlone.mode", false) == false
 INSERT_UPDATE SolrServerConfig;name[unique=true];mode(code)[forceWrite=true];embeddedMaster
 ;$serverConfigName;embedded;true
 #% endif:
  
 #% if: Config.getBoolean("solr.standlone.mode", false) == true
 INSERT_UPDATE SolrServerConfig;name[unique=true];mode(code)[forceWrite=true];embeddedMaster;useMasterNodeExclusivelyForIndexing
 ;$serverConfigName;standalone;false;false
 #endpoints
  
 INSERT_UPDATE SolrEndpointUrl;solrServerConfig(name)[unique=true];url[unique=true];master[unique=true,default=false]
 #% beforeEach: line.put(2, Config.getParameter("solr.master.endpoint.url"))
 ;$serverConfigName;;true
 #% beforeEach: end
 #% if: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.isNotEmpty(Config.getParameter("solr.slave.endpoint.url"))
 #% beforeEach: line.put(2, Config.getParameter("solr.slave.endpoint.url"))
 ;$serverConfigName
 #% beforeEach: end
 #% endif:
  
 #% endif:

[Former Member]

Hi Matt, thanks for that. But I would like to it rather manually. Does this change only the new location of the index files or is this rather seperating the complete solr- process out of the hybris-server? I found a lot info about how to separate the index files into another server only. But I could not really find information about seperating the whole solr-process out of the hybris-server. I need to do it because of performance issues.

[Former Member]

If you want to do it manually, you need to install Solr somewhere else, I think this is documented in the wiki, but easiest way is to zip the whole Solr part of the extension,

hybris/bin/ext-commerce/solrserver/resources/solr

You can then unzip that on another server, then you just create a standalone configuration in hmc or backoffice that points to your new server. You can copy over the index files, but it's probably not worth the effort, you can just reindex.

[Former Member]

Within HMC the Solr Server Mode cannot be changed, its greyed out. Do you have any steps for HMC for standalone solr indexing? I am not also sure where to put the remote server IP where the index files are located.

[Former Member]

hybris won't let you change it, you can create a new one, or, you can change it manually in the database (not recommended but it works).

[Former Member]

Even I try to create a new one the field for standalone/ embedded are greyed out. I will have a look in the DB so...