# Dashboard importing fails for metricbeat when security (x-pack) is configured **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [September 12, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249 "2016-09-12T02:09:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249/1 "2016-09-12T02:09:07Z")
Hi ! I would like to ask question regarding to sample dashboard importing for metricbeat. My environment is elasticsearch 5.0.0-alpha5 Xpack Security configured Metricbeat 5.0.0-alpha5 Kibana 5.0.0-alpha5 **Problem** When I execute the shell **[import-dashboard.sh](http://import-dashboard.sh)** it returns nothing for the dashboard import. index-pattern import is not executed after this. ``` [root@BS-POC-Test-Env kibana]# ./import_dashboards.sh Import dashboards,visualizations, searches and index pattern from . to http://localhost:9200 in .kibana Import dashboard Metricbeat-Apache-HTTPD-server-status: curl: (52) Empty reply from server ``` search and visualization was successful before I have configured x-pack security. **Analysis** I have changed the curl command in shell script as below. ``` if [-d "${DIR}/dashboard"]; then for file in ${DIR}/dashboard/*.json do NAME=`basename ${file} .json` echo "Import dashboard ${NAME}:" ${CURL} -u elastic:elastic -XPUT ${ELASTICSEARCH}/${KIBANA_INDEX}/dashboard/${NAME} -d @${file} || exit 1 echo done fi if [-d "${DIR}/index-pattern"]; then for file in ${DIR}/index-pattern/*.json do NAME=`awk '$1 == "\"title\":" {gsub(/[",]/, "", $2); print $2}' ${file}` echo "Import index pattern ${NAME}:" ${CURL} -XPUT ${ELASTICSEARCH}/${KIBANA_INDEX}/index-pattern/${NAME} \ -d -u elastic:elastic @${file} || exit 1 echo done fi ``` Am I missing any setting to use the import shell? ---
**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249/2 "2016-09-12T02:09:25Z")
Also I get below error in elasticsearch. I get below error in elasticsearch log after the shell is executed. ``` [2016-09-12 02:05:35,892][WARN][xpack.security.transport.netty4] [kG9P1-s] caught exception while handling client http traffic, closing connection [id: 0xd8a162b1, L:/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:9200 - R:/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:34456] java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: unsupported message type: DefaultFullHttpResponse (expected: ByteBuf, FileRegion) at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel.filterOutboundMessage(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:260) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AbstractUnsafe.write(AbstractChannel.java:799) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.write(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1291) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWrite0(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:748) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeWriteAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:811) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.write(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:824) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:804) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.writeAndFlush(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:841) at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageAggregator.decode(MessageAggregator.java:222) at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageDecoder.channelRead(MessageToMessageDecoder.java:88) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:350) at io.netty.handler.codec.MessageToMessageDecoder.channelRead(MessageToMessageDecoder.java:102) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:350) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.fireChannelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:293) at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:267) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:350) at io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.channelRead(ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter.java:86) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:350) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1334) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:372) at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:358) at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:926) at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:129) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:571) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysPlain(NioEventLoop.java:474) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:428) at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:398) at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$5.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:877) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) ``` ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249/3 "2016-09-12T02:15:55Z")
Hmm, looks like this was fixed in the latest alpha - [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/19893](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/19893) Maybe one of the beats team can comment a bit more, but it might be an issue with x-pack. ---
**Author:** ![tudor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tudor/32/3753_2.png) [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249/4 "2016-09-12T08:51:15Z")
@YuWatanabe That Elasticsearch issue exists in alpha5, so you need to edit the script and make sure you pass `-H Expect:` to the curl commands. See this comment [here](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/2208#issuecomment-238791331). ---
**Author:** ![YuWatanabe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yuwatanabe/32/13259_2.png) [@YuWatanabe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YuWatanabe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249/5 "2016-09-12T11:34:39Z")
@tudor Thanks for the help. Import works perfectly now. I believe with xpack **user** option needs to be specified. Default user option replaces the curl command defined in the beginning . I have modified the curl command specified in the user option as below. ``` 69 -u | -user ) 70 USER=$2 71 if ["$USER" = ""]; then 72 echo "Error: Missing username" 73 print_usage 74 exit 1 75 fi 76 CURL="${CURL} --user ${USER}" 77 ;; ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dashboard-importing-fails-for-metricbeat-when-security-x-pack-is-configured/60249/6 "2016-10-03T02:09:22Z")
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