# ActionNotFoundTransportException\[No handler for action \[indices:admin/exists\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionnotfoundtransportexception-no-handler-for-action-indices-admin-exists/312176>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 16, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionnotfoundtransportexception-no-handler-for-action-indices-admin-exists/312176 "2022-08-16T11:29:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sathiya\_Kennady](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sathiya_kennady/32/98781_2.png) [@Sathiya\_Kennady](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sathiya_Kennady)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionnotfoundtransportexception-no-handler-for-action-indices-admin-exists/312176/1 "2022-08-16T11:29:59Z")

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While checking index is exists are not i am getting below error :

ClusterConnectionManager:225 - transport connection to [{lutw}{Bz3WvABkSsuCLyVoF3kDsg}{exNsn6r4TFGF4KrMm4aduw}{192.168.1.84}{192.168.1.84:9300}{cdfhilmrstw}] closed by remote  
Exception in thread "main" ActionNotFoundTransportException[No handler for action [indices:admin/exists]]

Below code:

final IndicesExistsResponse ieResponse = client  
.admin()  
.indices()  
.prepareExists( indexName )  
.get( TimeValue.timeValueSeconds( 1000000 ) );

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2022, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionnotfoundtransportexception-no-handler-for-action-indices-admin-exists/312176/2 "2022-08-16T14:17:24Z")

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I think this means you're using the v7 transport client with a v8 cluster. The transport client is deprecated in v7 and removed in v8 so I would not expect this to work.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionnotfoundtransportexception-no-handler-for-action-indices-admin-exists/312176/3 "2022-09-13T14:18:06Z")

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