# How to issue reindex command using transport client
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-issue-reindex-command-using-transport-client/62533
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 7, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-issue-reindex-command-using-transport-client/62533 "2016-10-07T21:25:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@rahulcse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rahulcse)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-issue-reindex-command-using-transport-client/62533/1 "2016-10-07T21:25:40Z")
Hi Please help me with issuing reindex command using transport client.
also how to use transport client to monitor status of reindex.
Thanks,
Rahul
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-issue-reindex-command-using-transport-client/62533/2 "2016-10-08T01:35:34Z")
You need to install the reindex plugin on transport client and build the
requests for it. There is a [discus.elastic.co](http://discus.elastic.co) post on doing it that you can
search for. I can't as I'm on mobile now.
As far as monitoring the progress, use the tasks APIs as documented. In 5.0
it'll be nicer because you can reliably use wait\_for\_completion=false but
for now you can still run the request synchronously and monitor with the
tasks APIs.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-issue-reindex-command-using-transport-client/62533/3 "2017-07-05T22:13:56Z")