Administration and monitoring of Solr
There are various methods to administrate and monitor the Solr server. You can use either the Alfresco admin console to track the indexing status or the enable/disable search service. Solr also has its own built-in admin page. The Solr admin page provides full health indexes. Let's go through each of the different sections.
Understanding the Alfresco search admin console
As covered in Chapter 4, Administration of Alfresco, Alfresco has its own admin console. Within this admin console, there is a section named Search Service. It is again divided into different sections in order to configure and monitor Solr. The admin console can be accessed via http://<alfresco ip address>:<port>/alfresco/s/enterprise/admin:
Search Service: As shown in the following screenshot, it has a dropdown with three values: Solr, Solr4, and No Index. Solr is the old Solr subsystem and this should be enabled only during the upgrade process from older versions of Alfresco...
