# ILM policy not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-not-working/302604>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [April 18, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-not-working/302604 "2022-04-18T09:43:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jisha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jisha)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-policy-not-working/302604/6 "2022-05-27T11:22:42Z")

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@sudhagar_ramesh The issue got resolved . I added below POST remove (executed it first)and PUT command (Run it).  
POST /\_ilm/remove # to remove ILM policy and reapply it  
PUT mylogs-pre-ilm\*/\_settings {"index": {"lifecycle": {"name": "mylogs\_policy\_existing"}}}

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