# Cannot allocate because allocation is not permitted to any of the nodes
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-allocate-because-allocation-is-not-permitted-to-any-of-the-nodes/244530
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-allocate-because-allocation-is-not-permitted-to-any-of-the-nodes/244530 "2020-08-11T10:16:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Dipesh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dipesh)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-allocate-because-allocation-is-not-permitted-to-any-of-the-nodes/244530/1 "2020-08-11T10:16:53Z")
Hi ,
we are facing issue on elasticsearch, when we are adding replica 1 and shrads 1 on templates then
iml policy is not working properly. indices are not moving from warm to cold phase and delete phase.
{
"index" : "cat-2020.08.11-000001",
"shard" : 0,
"primary" : false,
"current\_state" : "unassigned",
"unassigned\_info" : {
"reason" : "INDEX\_CREATED",
"at" : "2020-08-11T09:57:06.687Z",
"last\_allocation\_status" : "no\_attempt"
},
"can\_allocate" : "no",
"allocate\_explanation" : "cannot allocate because allocation is not permitted to any of the nodes",
"node\_allocation\_decisions" : [
{
"node\_id" : "qKuQfHfCT3CIzhxP5Q2Brw",
"node\_name" : "essll03",
"transport\_address" : "255.255.0.21:9300",
"node\_attributes" : {
"ml.machine\_memory" : "3967631360",
"ml.max\_open\_jobs" : "20",
"box\_type" : "cold",
"xpack.installed" : "true",
"transform.node" : "true"
},
"node\_decision" : "no",
"weight\_ranking" : 1,
"deciders" : [
{
"decider" : "replica\_after\_primary\_active",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active"
},
{
"decider" : "filter",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : """node does not match index setting [index.routing.allocation.require] filters [box\_type:"hot"]"""
},
{
"decider" : "throttling",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active"
}
]
},
{
"node\_id" : "0Dejp5GSSHeoWuq9\_HjlcA",
"node\_name" : "essll02",
"transport\_address" : "255.255.0.18:9300",
"node\_attributes" : {
"ml.machine\_memory" : "3967631360",
"ml.max\_open\_jobs" : "20",
"box\_type" : "warm",
"xpack.installed" : "true",
"transform.node" : "true"
},
"node\_decision" : "no",
"weight\_ranking" : 2,
"deciders" : [
{
"decider" : "replica\_after\_primary\_active",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active"
},
{
"decider" : "filter",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : """node does not match index setting [index.routing.allocation.require] filters [box\_type:"hot"]"""
},
{
"decider" : "throttling",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active"
}
]
},
{
"node\_id" : "0fjqByOVSLC730YOiXYsYg",
"node\_name" : "essll01",
"transport\_address" : "255.255.0.36:9300",
"node\_attributes" : {
"ml.machine\_memory" : "3967635456",
"box\_type" : "hot",
"xpack.installed" : "true",
"transform.node" : "true",
"ml.max\_open\_jobs" : "20"
},
"node\_decision" : "no",
"weight\_ranking" : 3,
"deciders" : [
{
"decider" : "replica\_after\_primary\_active",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active"
},
{
"decider" : "filter",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : """node does not match index setting [index.routing.allocation.include] filters [\_name:"non\_existent\_node"]"""
},
{
"decider" : "throttling",
"decision" : "NO",
"explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active"
}
]
}
]
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-allocate-because-allocation-is-not-permitted-to-any-of-the-nodes/244530/2 "2020-09-08T10:17:04Z")
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