MAGETWO-45195: System message about invalid indexers is misleading

Author: Roman Ganin

app/code/Magento/Indexer/Model/Message/Invalid.php

@@ -13,13 +13,21 @@ class Invalid implements \Magento\Framework\Notification\MessageInterface
      */
     protected $collection;
 
+    /**
+     * @var \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface
+     */
+    protected $urlBuilder;
+
     /**
      * @param \Magento\Indexer\Model\Indexer\Collection $collection
+     * @param \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface $urlBuilder
      */
     public function __construct(
-        \Magento\Indexer\Model\Indexer\Collection $collection
+        \Magento\Indexer\Model\Indexer\Collection $collection,
+        \Magento\Framework\UrlInterface $urlBuilder
     ) {
         $this->collection = $collection;
+        $this->urlBuilder = $urlBuilder;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -57,9 +65,14 @@ public function getIdentity()
      */
     public function getText()
     {
-        // @codingStandardsIgnoreStart
-        return __('One or more of the indexers are not valid. Please add Magento cron file to crontab or launch cron.php manually.');
-        // @codingStandardsIgnoreEnd
+        $url = $this->urlBuilder->getUrl('indexer/indexer/list');
+        //@codingStandardsIgnoreStart
+        return __(
+            'One or more <a href="%1">indexers are invalid</a>. Make sure your <a href="%2" target="_blank">Magento cron job</a> is running.',
+            $url,
+            'http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html#config-cli-cron-bkg'
+        );
+        //@codingStandardsIgnoreEnd
     }
 
     /**

lib/internal/Magento/Framework/App/Console/Request.php

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class Request implements \Magento\Framework\App\RequestInterface
     public function __construct(array $parameters = [])
     {
         $data = getopt(null, $parameters);
-        // It can happen that request comes from http, but it runs the console (e.g. pub/cron.php)
+        // It can happen that request comes from http, but it runs the console (e.g. bin/magento cron:run)
         if ($data) {
             $this->setParams($data);
         } else {