# Enabling X-Pack on Elasticsearch Cluster Defaults

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 6, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076 "2022-05-06T00:20:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![pushert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pushert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pushert)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/1 "2022-05-06T00:20:19Z")

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Hi,

When enabling X-Pack to an existing cluster does this automatically enable the security features ? Do I need to disable the security features so the cluster doesn't requirement TLS connection ?

Thank You,

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**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:** [May 6, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/2 "2022-05-06T01:34:48Z")

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What version are you running?

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**Author:** ![pushert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pushert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pushert)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/3 "2022-05-06T04:00:06Z")

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I'm on version 7.10.2

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**Author:** ![pushert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pushert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pushert)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/4 "2022-05-09T17:50:08Z")

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@warkolm does that information help at all ?

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**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:** [May 10, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/5 "2022-05-10T00:08:48Z")

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> [@pushert](#):
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> Do I need to disable the security features so the cluster doesn't requirement TLS connection ?

Yes, you will need to explicitly disable that. However it's not something that we would recommend.

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**Author:** ![pushert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@pushert](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pushert)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/6 "2022-05-10T04:53:12Z")

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Thank you

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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:** [June 7, 2022, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enabling-x-pack-on-elasticsearch-cluster-defaults/304076/7 "2022-06-07T04:53:30Z")

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