# Configure an index pattern

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-an-index-pattern/24886>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 3, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-an-index-pattern/24886 "2015-07-03T18:55:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kebbkh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@kebbkh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kebbkh)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-an-index-pattern/24886/1 "2015-07-03T18:55:12Z")

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Hello,

So I've been doing some research on how to inject a dummy entry into ES in order to enable the configuration automatically for the kibana application. Is there any way I can do this through a curl command, I have tried the following this far:

curl -XPUT "http://[HOST]:9200/logstash-\*/" -d 'index: number\_of\_replicas:2'

this creates the index successfully, however:  
also, is there a clean way to enable asterisk as \* instead of the entity code into the curl command?  
lastly, after running the curl command above, the Time-field name list box is empty and I cannot select an option (i.e. @timestamp)

Any help would be great.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-an-index-pattern/24886/2 "2015-07-04T02:18:50Z")

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What's the use case here?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configure-an-index-pattern/24886/3 "2017-07-06T14:17:06Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 2:17pm UTC