Add guide for using ILM with existing indices (#43667)

In many cases, including migration from previous versions of data shippers (e.g. Beats), it is useful to use ILM to manage historical indices, which are no longer being written to. This commit adds a guide which gives an example of how to do that.
elastic · Aug 5, 2019 · 277033a · 277033a
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diff --git a/docs/reference/docs/reindex.asciidoc b/docs/reference/docs/reindex.asciidoc
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 // CONSOLE
 // TEST[setup:twitter]
 
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+[[reindex-scripts]]
 Like `_update_by_query`, `_reindex` supports a script that modifies the
 document. Unlike `_update_by_query`, the script is allowed to modify the
 document's metadata. This example bumps the version of the source document: