# Parameters and configuration

**Parameters**

<table border="1" id="bkmrk---conf-ruta-al-archi" style="width: 100%; height: 348.36px;"><tbody><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;">-s SOURCE\_URL, --source\_url SOURCE\_URL</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">URL of elastic source environment to be migrated</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 46.5938px;">-d DESTINATION\_URL, --destination\_url DESTINATION\_URL</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 46.5938px;">URL of the opensearch target environment</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;">-P INDEX\_PATTERN, --index\_pattern INDEX\_PATTERN</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">Index pattern to be migrated, by default: pandorafms\*.</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;"> -a, --use\_auth</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">Flag, use basic authentication</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;">-u USER, --user USER</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">User for basic authentication, by default: admin</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;"> -p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">Basic authentication password, default: admin</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;">-t TIMEOUT, --timeout TIMEOUT</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">Time to wait between index migrations</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 46.5938px;">-f, --force</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 46.5938px;">Deletes the index at the destination if it exists and forces migration</td></tr><tr style="height: 29.7969px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 29.7969px;"> -C, --compare</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 29.7969px;">Compares the source and destination indexes and the status of each.</td></tr><tr style="height: 46.5938px;"><td style="width: 48.0734%; height: 46.5938px;">-v, --verbose</td><td style="width: 51.9019%; height: 46.5938px;">Flag, shows step by step all migration actions, for debugging.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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