---
title: remote_certificate
description: This should be a file path to a CA certificate, or left empty. This setting allows the use of a specified CA certificate file to validate the SSL certificate...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/curator/option_remote_certificate
products:
  - Elasticsearch
  - Elasticsearch Curator
---

# remote_certificate
This should be a file path to a CA certificate, or left empty.
```yaml
actions:
  1:
    description: "Reindex index1 into index2"
    action: reindex
    options:
      wait_interval: 9
      max_wait: -1
      remote_certificate: /path/to/my/ca.cert
      remote_client_cert: /path/to/my/client.cert
      remote_client_key: /path/to/my/client.key
      request_body:
        source:
          remote:
            host: <OTHER_HOST_URL>:9200
          index: index1
        dest:
          index: index2
    filters:
    - filtertype: none
```

<note>
  This option is only used by the [Reindex action](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/elasticsearch/curator/reindex) when performing a remote reindex operation.
</note>

This setting allows the use of a specified CA certificate file to validate the SSL certificate used by Elasticsearch.
There is no default.