# Import dangling indices on a single server
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dangling-indices-on-a-single-server/64738
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dangling-indices-on-a-single-server/64738 "2016-11-02T16:04:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Augustus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Augustus)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dangling-indices-on-a-single-server/64738/1 "2016-11-02T16:04:03Z")
I have a single standalone server running the ELK stack. When I rebooted the server yesterday elasticsearch was slow to start and I found a message in the logs saying:
auto importing dangled indices
A quick google confirmed that this is a message that should only occur in a cluster, but I have a single server. I seem though to have 2 nodes (one on port 9300 and one on 9301).
{
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch",
"status" : "yellow",
"timed\_out" : false,
"number\_of\_nodes" : 2,
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2,
"active\_primary\_shards" : 911,
"active\_shards" : 985,
"relocating\_shards" : 0,
"initializing\_shards" : 2,
"unassigned\_shards" : 835,
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0,
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0,
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0,
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 54.061470911086715
}
I'm curious about:
- Is this expected behaviour (to have 2 nodes on 1 server) ?
- I have another standalone ELK server with just one node in it's cluster, if I reboot this server is another node likely to appear and the dangling index import process take place ?
many thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/import-dangling-indices-on-a-single-server/64738/2 "2017-07-05T22:07:18Z")