This is the documentation for Cloudera Enterprise 5.8.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Validating the Deployment with the Solr REST API

Validate the deployment by indexing and querying documents with the Solr REST API. Before beginning this process, you must have access to the Solr admin web console, as detailed in Deploying Cloudera Search.

Note: Validating deployments using the Solr REST API only succeeds if Kerberos is disabled.

Initiating the collection

Generate the configuration files for the collection:
```
$ solrctl instancedir --generate $HOME/solr_configs
```

Upload the instance directory to ZooKeeper:

$ solrctl instancedir --create collection1 $HOME/solr_configs

Create the new collection:

$ solrctl collection --create collection1 -s 2 -c collection1

Indexing Data

Begin by indexing data to be queried later. Sample data is provided in the installed packages. Replace $SOLRHOST in the example below with the name of any host running the Solr process.

Parcel-based Installation:

$ cd /opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH/share/doc/solr-doc*/example/exampledocs
$ java -Durl=http://$SOLRHOST:8983/solr/collection1/update -jar post.jar *.xml

Package-based Installation:

$ cd /usr/share/doc/solr-doc*/example/exampledocs
$ java -Durl=http://$SOLRHOST:8983/solr/collection1/update -jar post.jar *.xml

Running Queries

After you have indexed data, you can run a query.

To run a query:

Open the following link in a browser, replacing $SOLRHOST with the name of any host running the Solr process: http://$SOLRHOST:8983/solr.
Click the collection name in the left panel.
Click Query in the Menu and select execute query.

Note: Choose wt as json and select the indent option in the web GUI to see more readable output.

Next Steps

Consider indexing more data using the Solr REST API, or move to batch indexing with MapReduce or NRT indexing with Flume. To learn more about Solr, see the Apache Solr Tutorial.

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