---
title: elasticsearch-reconfigure-node
description: The elasticsearch-reconfigure-node tool reconfigures an Elasticsearch node that was installed through an RPM or DEB package to join an existing cluster...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/command-line-tools/reconfigure-node
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available
---

# elasticsearch-reconfigure-node
The `elasticsearch-reconfigure-node` tool reconfigures an Elasticsearch node that was installed through an RPM or DEB package to join an existing cluster with security features enabled.

## Synopsis

```shell
bin/elasticsearch-reconfigure-node
[--enrollment-token] [-h, --help] [-E <KeyValuePair>]
[-s, --silent] [-v, --verbose]
```


## Description

When installing Elasticsearch with a DEB or RPM package, the current node is assumed to be the first node in the cluster. Elasticsearch enables and configures security features on the node, generates a password for the `elastic` superuser, and configures TLS for the HTTP and transport layers.
Rather than form a single-node cluster, you can add a node to an existing cluster where security features are already enabled and configured. Before starting your new node, run the [`elasticsearch-create-enrollment-token`](https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/elasticsearch/command-line-tools/create-enrollment-token) tool with the `-s node` option to generate an enrollment token on any node in your existing cluster. On your new node, run the `elasticsearch-reconfigure-node` tool and pass the enrollment token as a parameter.
<note>
  This tool is intended only for use on DEB or RPM distributions of Elasticsearch.
</note>

You must run this tool with `sudo` so that it can edit the necessary files in your Elasticsearch installation configuration directory that are owned by `root:elasticsearch`.

## Parameters

<definitions>
  <definition term="--enrollment-token">
    The enrollment token, which can be generated on any of the nodes in an existing, secured cluster.
  </definition>
  <definition term="-E <KeyValuePair>">
    Configures a standard Elasticsearch or X-Pack setting.
  </definition>
  <definition term="-h, --help">
    Shows help information.
  </definition>
  <definition term="-s, --silent">
    Shows minimal output.
  </definition>
  <definition term="-v, --verbose">
    Shows verbose output.
  </definition>
</definitions>



### JVM options

CLI tools run with 64MB of heap. For most tools, this value is fine. However, if needed this can be overridden by setting the `CLI_JAVA_OPTS` environment variable. For example, the following increases the heap size used by the `elasticsearch-reconfigure-node` tool to 1GB.
```shell
export CLI_JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g"
bin/elasticsearch-reconfigure-node ...
```


## Examples

The following example reconfigures an installed Elasticsearch node so that it can join an existing cluster when it starts for the first time.
```shell
sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-reconfigure-node --enrollment-token eyJ2ZXIiOiI4LjAuMCIsImFkciI6WyIxOTIuMTY4LjEuMTY6OTIwMCJdLCJmZ3IiOiI4NGVhYzkyMzAyMWQ1MjcyMmQxNTFhMTQwZmM2ODI5NmE5OWNiNmU0OGVhZjYwYWMxYzljM2I3ZDJjOTg2YTk3Iiwia2V5IjoiUy0yUjFINEJrNlFTMkNEY1dVV1g6QS0wSmJxM3hTRy1haWxoQTdPWVduZyJ9
```