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SharePoint Search Service 2013 Error

There are some common SharePoint Search Service Application erros which you might encountered when you are wokring with the service.
Administrative status     Paused for:Index reset
Administrative status     Paused for:External request, Index reset
Administrative status     Paused for:External request
You may find these erros when you navigate to
Central Administration and Manage service applications
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then Search Service Application
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you can find service error details in the Search Service Application: Search Administration page

Common Resolution for Those problems

If you see those erros first you can do a quick workround and see whether its resolved.
  • Stop following services in all nodes in the farm. (actually this is needed for notes which search components are running , but if you couldnt find those do it for all servers)
  • You can goto servics by type services.msc in run window (Windows + R) Stop “SharePoint Timer Service”
    Stop “SharePoint Search Host Controller”
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  • Most of the time restating these services will resolve the problem but if it index problem it is better to delete the corrupted index.
  • Go to each node and locate the following path
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\Office Server\Applications\Search\Nodes\<HEX ID>\IndexComponent<N>\storage\data\
Delete all files and folders inside the data folder.
then restart the all services (SharePoint Timer Service,SharePoint Search Host Controller) again.
  • Then check the problem of the search service by using following powershell scripts.
REF : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn745901(v=office.15).aspx
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication –Identity <ID>
using the following command you can check whether search service is paused.
$ssa.IsPaused() -ne 0
If it is returning true try to restart the the search service using following powershell script.
$ssa.ForceResume(True)
If it is returning false try to execute following scripts to find out the actual reason for not running.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x01) -ne 0
Cause: A change in the number of crawl components or crawl databases is in progress.
Action: Wait until the topology change completes.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x02) -ne 0
Cause: A backup or restore procedure is in progress.
Action: Wait until the backup or restore completes.  After the procedure completes, run the command $ssa.ForceResume(0x02) to verify. For more information
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x04) -ne 0
Cause: A backup of the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is in progress.
Action: Wait until the backup completes.  After the VSS backup completes, run the command $ssa.ForceResume(0x02) to verify.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x08) -ne 0
Cause: One or more servers in the search topology that host query components are offline.
Action: Wait until the servers are available again.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x20) -ne 0
Cause: One or more crawl databases in the search topology are being rebalanced.
Action: Wait until the operation completes.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x40) -ne 0
Cause: One or more link databases in the search topology are being rebalanced.
Action: Wait until the operation completes.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x80) -ne 0
Cause: An administrator has manually paused the Search service application.
Action: If you know the reason, you can resume the Search service application. Run the command $ssa.resume() to resume the Search service application.
If you don’t know the reason, find out why someone has manually paused the Search service application.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x100) -ne 0
Cause: The search index is being deleted.
Action: Wait until the search index is deleted.
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($ssa.IsPaused() -band 0x200) -ne 0
The search index is being repartitioned.
Wait until the operation completes.

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