# Node restart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 8, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-restart/17403 "2014-05-08T00:18:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-restart/17403/1 "2014-05-08T00:18:36Z")
Does nodes restart action work? It is not documented, and whenever I try to use it I get: { "error" : "ElasticSearchIllegalStateException[restart is disabled (for now) ....]", "status" : 500 } Which indicates a failure, but there is nothing else in the logs which indicates any issues. > The disabled property is set to false by default. Trying to come up with a more graceful way for non-technical users to restart servers. -- Ivan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQAXGEFJCWaHnp48Ti-ccDcHw2XgCrrdi5CccNxKRJ\_50g%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQAXGEFJCWaHnp48Ti-ccDcHw2XgCrrdi5CccNxKRJ_50g%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-restart/17403/2 "2014-05-08T16:54:48Z")
To answer my own question, it is in fact disabled: > > > Hiya > > I started two nodes with \`./bin/elasticsearch\` and once settled, issued a:… > > \`\`\` > curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/\_cluster/nodes/\_restart' > \`\`\` > > The nodes restart, but no node is made master, so they are essentially zombies. See the logs here: > http://gist.github.com/479454 -- Ivan On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Ivan Brusic [ivan@brusic.com](mailto:ivan@brusic.com) wrote: > Does nodes restart action work? It is not documented, and whenever I try > to use it I get: > > { > "error" : "ElasticSearchIllegalStateException[restart is disabled (for > now) ....]", > "status" : 500 > } > > Which indicates a failure, but there is nothing else in the logs which > indicates any issues. > > [https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/1.0/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/restart/TransportNodesRestartAction.java#L68](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/blob/1.0/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/node/restart/TransportNodesRestartAction.java#L68) > > The disabled property is set to false by default. Trying to come up with a > more graceful way for non-technical users to restart servers. > > -- > Ivan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQAmJZff\_v0JGLoq1xCUWE10RHVqgLYtCw9MB7E3bowFig%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQAmJZff_v0JGLoq1xCUWE10RHVqgLYtCw9MB7E3bowFig%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-restart/17403/3 "2017-07-06T01:30:45Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:30am UTC