How to trigger content re-indexing and view the status of indexing

This describes how to trigger content re-indexing and view the status of the indexing in the Confluence application.

Instructions

There are two ways in which you will be able to trigger the content re-indexing using prototype rest api and using UI actions


DescriptionUse
Prototype Rest API

start re-index
-a renderRequest --request rest/prototype/1/index/reindex --requestType post --type JSON  
view status
-a renderRequest --request rest/prototype/1/index/reindex
UI actionsstart re-index
-a renderRequest --request admin/reindextaskprogress.action   

view status
-a renderRequest --request json/reindextaskprogress.action