Clearing the Consolidation Server

To clear the Consolidation Server content, you have the choice between the following options in the Administration Console > Home page.

You can perform one of the following actions:

Action To ...
Home > Connectors > Clear documents for specific connectors pushing to the Consolidation Server. Notify the object graph and the document storage to take this change into account and send the proper deletion orders to the Indexing Server.
Important: Impact analysis is performed on any deleted document so it might take some time for large sources.
Consolidation > Clear Clear consolidated data from the Consolidation Server. The Consolidation Server then sends delete orders to its aggregation targets, that is to say, the target Indexing Server or another Consolidation Server (if you specified forward rules). If you want to accelerate the process and if possible, it is better to clear the index first and then clear the Consolidation Server.
Clear documents action for consolidation-<instance name> Clear from the index all documents previously pushed by all the Consolidation Server connectors. This action deletes all consolidated documents from the Indexing Server but not from the Consolidation Server. Therefore, we do not recommend this option as it may lead to inconsistent states between the Consolidation Server and the Indexing Server. Yet it can be useful, if you then launch a force aggregation action to make sure that the Indexing Server does not contain results of previous aggregations.