Wednesday, June 5, 2013

SharePoint 2013 Search: Adding a New Crawl Component to a Search Server

This blog is part of my Scaling Out Search Series and describes the processes for adding a new crawl component to a new search server:

Get Search Service Instance and Start on New Index Server$ssi = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "<<new index server>>"
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $ssi


Wait for Search Service Instance to come online
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $ssi

(The full script contains a loop that waits for the service to come online)

Clone Active Search Topology$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$active = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Active
$clone = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Clone –SearchTopology $active



Add New Crawl Component
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $ssi




Activate the Cloned Search Topology
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $clone


Review new topology
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Active -SearchApplication $ssa



Monitor Distribution of Index
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa


(The full script contains a loop that waits for the index component to be Active)

The new index component will be "Degraded" until the index is fully synced. Use the -text parameter to retrieve more detailed information:




Once all components are Active, reviewing the Search Application Topology in Central Admin shows the following:
 



NEXT, I created a New Content Processing Component.


FULL SCRIPT

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

#Get Search Service Instance and Start on New Index Server
$ssi = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "<<new index server>>"
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $ssi


#Wait for Search Service Instance to come online
do {$online = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $ssi; Write-Host "Waiting for service: " $online.Status}
until ($online.Status -eq "Online")


#Clone Active Search Topology
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$active = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Active
$clone = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Clone –SearchTopology $active


# Add New Crawl Component
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $ssi


#Activate the Cloned Search Topology
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $clone


#Review new topology
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Active -SearchApplication $ssa


#Monitor Distribution of Index
do {$activeState = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "IndexComponent2"}; Write-Host "Waiting for active distribution: " $activeState.State}
until ($activeState.State -eq "Active")

7 comments:

  1. This post is awesome. I learned a ton. Thanks Steve.

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  2. Fantastic. This saved my life. you are excellent :)

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  3. When you add a new crawl component does that replace the existing one on a server? I don't see anything happening to remove the component first? I have a crawler with a red X on it so need help to fix it

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  4. Cannot be copied from the Full Script above, brings over various weird characters like รข€

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    1. paste into notepad first to remove any browser characters

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