# Question about unassigned shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 9, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892 "2013-10-09T20:12:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mark\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_2)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892/1 "2013-10-09T20:12:53Z")
I've spun up a new ES cluster (0.90.5) that consists of two nodes with zone
awareness. I created a test index with 5 shards and 1 replica via the API
which returns successfully. When I examine the cluster health endpoint, the
result shows that the shards are unassigned and remains that way:
{"cluster\_name": "mysearchcluster","status": "red","timed\_out": false,"
number\_of\_nodes": 2,"number\_of\_data\_nodes": 2,"active\_primary\_shards": 0,"
active\_shards": 0,"relocating\_shards": 0,"initializing\_shards": 0,"
unassigned\_shards": _10_}
There doesn't appear to be anything in the logs that indicate an errors.
Also I cannot (as I would expect) able to access the index via curl.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here but just looking for help as to
what step I may have missed in setting up this two node cluster.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892/2 "2013-10-09T21:35:26Z")
The cluster state is red, so I'm sure there is something in the logs... can
you please give us insight about your logs and the command how you did set
up zone awareness.
Jörg
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### Author:  [@mark\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_2)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2013, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892/3 "2013-10-09T22:04:55Z")
Certainly.
Here's all the log output after a data node restart:
[https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909159](https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909159)
elasticsearch.yml: [https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909279](https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909279)
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 5:35:26 PM UTC-4, Jörg Prante wrote:
> The cluster state is red, so I'm sure there is something in the logs...
> can you please give us insight about your logs and the command how you did
> set up zone awareness.
>
> Jörg
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### Author:  [@mark\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_2)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892/4 "2013-10-09T22:15:11Z")
Ok fixed my own problem.
We were missing node.zone in our yml file and had the
'cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes' property set wrong.
On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 6:04:55 PM UTC-4, [ma...@evertrue.com](mailto:ma...@evertrue.com) wrote:
> Certainly.
>
> Here's all the log output after a data node restart:
> [https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909159](https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909159)
>
> elasticsearch.yml: [https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909279](https://gist.github.com/mgreene/6909279)
>
> On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 5:35:26 PM UTC-4, Jörg Prante wrote:
>
> > The cluster state is red, so I'm sure there is something in the logs...
> > can you please give us insight about your logs and the command how you did
> > set up zone awareness.
> >
> > Jörg
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-about-unassigned-shards/13892/5 "2017-07-06T02:13:10Z")