# ILM is not managing my indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-is-not-managing-my-indices/191904>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 23, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-is-not-managing-my-indices/191904 "2019-07-23T19:59:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcguacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mcguacon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mcguacon)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-is-not-managing-my-indices/191904/1 "2019-07-23T19:59:49Z")

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I have created a template containing my ILM policy as follows:  
PUT \_template/rollup\_template  
{  
"index\_patterns": ["rollup\*"],  
"settings": {  
"number\_of\_shards": 1,  
"number\_of\_replicas": 1,  
"index.lifecycle.name": "rollup\_policy\_1",  
"index.lifecycle.rollover\_alias": "rollup"  
}  
}

My two indices names are **rollup\_services** and **rollup\_process**.  
When doing an \_ilm/explain, the response says managed: false

I am trying to understand my error in why the template is not mapping the ILM policy to these indices.

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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:** [August 20, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-is-not-managing-my-indices/191904/2 "2019-08-20T19:59:53Z")

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Closed on August 20, 2019, 7:59pm UTC

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