# \--authenticationDatabase admin

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [May 22, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164 "2015-05-22T11:45:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![Amit\_Kumar\_Srivastav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Amit\_Kumar\_Srivastav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amit_Kumar_Srivastav)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 11:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164/1 "2015-05-22T11:45:42Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Issue with Watcher](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-watcher/1122):

> [@Issue with Watcher](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-with-watcher/1122/1):
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> Hello Team,
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> i have followed the startup guide to install watcher plugin using the following command.
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> bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/watcher/ (used the beta key as given in mail)
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> Plugin got installed successfully,but after starting the elasticsearch i see below error:
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> could you please help me in resolving the issue

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### Author: ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164/2 "2015-05-22T14:50:51Z")

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Hi Amit, Chandana,

From the screenshot, it looks like the license plugin is not installed. Please see the installation instructions in the getting started guide:

[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/getting-started.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/watcher/current/getting-started.html)

It appears there is also an issue with your logging configuration, but it doesn't seem related.

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### Author: ![chandana\_Reddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@chandana\_Reddy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandana_Reddy)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164/3 "2015-05-26T18:05:03Z")

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Thank you Steve.

Actually installation of Watcher on elasticsearch 1.5.2 version worked

Here is the output of **curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_watcher/stats?pretty:smile:](http://localhost:9200/_watcher/stats?pretty:smile:)**

![](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/uploads/default/original/0/6/06aff97fb0bab9920d097bfbaf0a46a2eafd8a0c.png)

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### Author: ![skearns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/skearns/32/125945_2.png) [@skearns](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/skearns)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164/4 "2015-05-26T19:22:38Z")

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Hi Chandana,

It looks like you are now up and running! Thanks for letting us know.

Good luck creating your first watch!

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/authenticationdatabase-admin/1164/5 "2017-07-06T13:49:52Z")

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