# 7.0 Upgrade Assistant

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-0-upgrade-assistant/169289>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-0-upgrade-assistant/169289 "2019-02-20T20:38:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/7-0-upgrade-assistant/169289/6 "2019-02-22T15:02:54Z")

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> GET /\_xpack/migration/assistance

results:

```
{
  "indices" : { }
}

```

and

> POST /\_xpack/migration/upgrade/.security

```
{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
        "reason" : "no such index",
        "index_uuid" : "_na_",
        "index" : ".security"
      }
    ],
    "type" : "index_not_found_exception",
    "reason" : "no such index",
    "index_uuid" : "_na_",
    "index" : ".security"
  },
  "status" : 404
}

```

other then above output, elasticsearch master node does not produce any errors...

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`Reenable shard allocation.` is enabled, yet upgrade fails(

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