diff --git a/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/security_actions.yml b/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/security_actions.yml
index 87700adf..2d7e9e6d 100644
--- a/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/security_actions.yml
+++ b/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/tasks/security_actions.yml
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
         }
       body_format: json
       validate_certs: no
-      status_code: 200,401
+      status_code: 200,201,401
       return_content: yes
       timeout: 4
     when: