# Setting up elastic search master and data node configuration in two different servers **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-elastic-search-master-and-data-node-configuration-in-two-different-servers/98012 "2017-08-23T07:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![virat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecccb3/32.png) [@virat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/virat)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-elastic-search-master-and-data-node-configuration-in-two-different-servers/98012/2 "2017-08-23T17:33:20Z")
I have got the solution. As I installed through rpm packages in the logs I was getting below issue: [2017-08-24T03:50:01,331][INFO][o.e.d.z.ZenDiscovery] [node-2] failed to send join request to master [{node-1}{sYqhGZc4QyK\_cbZ9\_cz8gQ}{BBHUedE6Roaw0AMiYnQwIg}{172.31.4.119}{172.31.4.119:9300}], reason [RemoteTransportException[[node-1][172.31.4.119:9300][internal:discovery/zen/join]]; nested: IllegalArgumentException[can't add node {node-2}{sYqhGZc4QyK\_cbZ9\_cz8gQ}{FbDpyWy2S7SS1c8TvLsnfQ}{172.31.4.118}{172.31.4.118:9300}, found existing node {node-1}{sYqhGZc4QyK\_cbZ9\_cz8gQ}{BBHUedE6Roaw0AMiYnQwIg}{172.31.4.119}{172.31.4.119:9300} with the same id but is a different node instance]; ] I had deleted contents of data folder(/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0) and restarted both the servers and it worked for me. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-up-elastic-search-master-and-data-node-configuration-in-two-different-servers/98012)._