# Disallowing to specify number of shards & replicas at index creation time?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disallowing-to-specify-number-of-shards-replicas-at-index-creation-time/262915
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 2, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disallowing-to-specify-number-of-shards-replicas-at-index-creation-time/262915 "2021-02-02T00:43:35Z")
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### Author:  [@mucius](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mucius)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disallowing-to-specify-number-of-shards-replicas-at-index-creation-time/262915/1 "2021-02-02T00:43:36Z")
Good day,
Is it possible to make Elasticsearch ignore number of replicas & number of shards specified by user during index creation? I'm interested to control these parameters on Elasticsearch side only (using templates), overriding any values that may be specified by clients.
Can it be done?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disallowing-to-specify-number-of-shards-replicas-at-index-creation-time/262915/2 "2021-02-02T01:10:46Z")
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No there's not. The only way would be to restrict creation of indices all together.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disallowing-to-specify-number-of-shards-replicas-at-index-creation-time/262915/3 "2021-03-02T01:11:43Z")
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