# How to clean up the Elasticsearch settings?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-clean-up-the-elasticsearch-settings/18775>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 21, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-clean-up-the-elasticsearch-settings/18775 "2014-07-21T23:13:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Jeffz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jeffz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeffz)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-clean-up-the-elasticsearch-settings/18775/1 "2014-07-21T23:13:53Z")

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I made the following setting to my Elasticsearch cluster in order to decommission some old nodes in the cluster. After removed these old nodes, now I need to re-enable cluster to allocate shards on those '10.0.6.\*' nodes. Does anyone know how to remove this setting?

```
PUT /_cluster/settings
{
   "transient": {
      "cluster.routing.allocation.exclude._ip": "10.0.6.*"
   }
}

```

Thanks in advance for any help!

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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, 1:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-clean-up-the-elasticsearch-settings/18775/2 "2017-07-06T01:14:24Z")

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