# How to make ILM work in ES v 7.10.0
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management
**Created:** [March 2, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619 "2022-03-02T13:20:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Vikrant\_Aggarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vikrant_Aggarwal)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/1 "2022-03-02T13:20:41Z")
Hello Team,
May be a naive query but I couldn't find information on this topic.
Issuing:
GET \_ilm/status giving me the following error:
```auto
{
"error" : "Incorrect HTTP method for uri [/_ilm/status?pretty=true] and method [GET], allowed: [POST]",
"status" : 405
}
```
What I need to do in ES cluster to make ILM work?
We have following plugins installed. Does it require any special plugin?
```auto
opendistro-anomaly-detection
opendistro-job-scheduler
opendistro-knn
opendistro-reports-scheduler
opendistro_alerting
opendistro_index_management
opendistro_performance_analyzer
opendistro_security
opendistro_sql
repository-gcs
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/2 "2022-03-02T13:20:41Z")
Opendistro is an AWS run product and differs from the original Elasticsearch and Kibana products that Elastic builds and maintains. You may need to contact them directly for further assistance.
(This is an automated response from your friendly Elastic bot. Please report this post if you have any suggestions or concerns :elasticheart: )
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/3 "2022-03-02T13:44:42Z")
ILM requires the default distribution of Elasticsearch and not the OSS one. This is as far as I know not compatible with OpenDistro.
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### Author:  [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/5 "2022-03-02T17:37:00Z")
Hello Vikrant,
Ilm is not available in oss version and is part of basic license.
If you are using open distro then similar feature is provided via ism and you can refer this for more details:
> **[Index State Management](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch-docs/docs/im/ism/)**
>
> Documentation for Open Distro, the community-driven, 100% open source distribution of Elasticsearch OSS with advanced security, alerting, deep performance analysis, and more.
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### Author:  [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/7 "2022-03-02T17:40:39Z")
> [@DineshNaik](#):
>
> Ilm is paid feature
This isn't true, ILM is included in the free-and-open basic license tier, see [Subscriptions | Elastic Stack Products & Support | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions).
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### Author:  [@DineshNaik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DineshNaik)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/8 "2022-03-02T18:37:37Z")
Thanks David , corrected the same in my response above.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-make-ilm-work-in-es-v-7-10-0/298619/9 "2022-03-30T18:37:47Z")
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