# Curator 5.7 Windows Doesnt run Error \[Errno 11001\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** curator\ **Created:** [September 5, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-7-windows-doesnt-run-error-errno-11001/198307 "2019-09-05T18:56:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Downey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ryan_downey/32/35987_2.png) [@Ryan\_Downey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ryan_Downey)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-7-windows-doesnt-run-error-errno-11001/198307/1 "2019-09-05T18:56:20Z")
_ **Solved** _ Elasticsearch OSS-7.0.0 Curator 5.7 I recently had trouble running Curator on a Windows server in which I could run .\curator curator-action.yml --config curator-config.yml to delete indices older than a set amount of time. When I would run the cmd in Powershell it seemingly "wouldn't" run, the cmd would just start the next cmd line in Powershell. In the curator-config.yml I added a path to logfile line. Seems like stdout doesnt work for the error messages? Maybe an Elastic Team Member can elaborate on that a bit. ```auto #Curator configuration client: hosts: - http://abc1234.gov port: 9200 url_prefix: timeout: 100 master_only: False logging: loglevel: INFO logfile: D:\curator-5.7.6-amd64\logs\curator.txt logformat: default blacklist: [‘elasticsearch’] ``` This added data to the .txt file that in which the only seemingly useful part of the error message was [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed ```auto 2019-09-04 13:11:50,920 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "delete_indices" 2019-09-04 13:11:50,935 WARNING GET http://abc1234.gov:9200/ [status:N/A request:0.016s] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 159, in _new_conn File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 57, in create_connection File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\socket.py", line 745, in getaddrinfo socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\elasticsearch\connection\http_urllib3.py", line 220, in perform_request File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 638, in urlopen File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 344, in increment File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\packages\six.py", line 686, in reraise File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 600, in urlopen File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 354, in _make_request File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\http\client.py", line 1239, in request File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\http\client.py", line 1285, in _send_request File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\http\client.py", line 1234, in endheaders File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\http\client.py", line 1026, in _send_output File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\http\client.py", line 964, in send File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 181, in connect File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 168, in _new_conn urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: : Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed 2019-09-04 13:11:51,935 WARNING GET http://abc1234.gov:9200/ [status:N/A request:0.000s] Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 159, in _new_conn File "C:\Users\aaron\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python36\site-packages\urllib3\util\connection.py", line 57, in create_connection File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\socket.py", line 745, in getaddrinfo socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed ``` A quick Google search led me to believe that this was a syntax error of some nature or that I had to change the domain name to an ip. I started with the syntax part and changed [http://abc1234.gov](http://abc1234.gov) to [http://ABC1234.gov](http://ABC1234.gov) which fixed the problem. With this issue out of the way I was able to run a greater than 92 day indices deletion of metricbeats and heartbeat with the curator-action.yml below. ```auto #Delete metricbeats older than 5 days. actions: 1: action: delete_indices description: >- Delete metricbeat indices older than 92 days options: ignore_empty_list: True disable_action: False filters: - filtertype: pattern kind: prefix value: metricbeat- - filtertype: age source: name direction: older timestring: '%Y.%m.%d' unit: days unit_count: 92 2: action: delete_indices description: >- Delete heartbeat indices older than 92 days options: ignore_empty_list: True disable_action: False filters: - filtertype: pattern kind: prefix value: heartbeat- - filtertype: age source: name direction: older timestring: '%Y.%m.%d' unit: days unit_count: 92 ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/curator-5-7-windows-doesnt-run-error-errno-11001/198307/2 "2019-10-03T18:56:22Z")
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