Generate node certificate

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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What am I doing wrong? missing some option, parameter?

I have my cluster setup with certificate and working fine with following config on all nodes.
it was created using

/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-certutil cert cert --ca elastic-certificates.p12

Same as describe in this link
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.6/security-basic-setup.html

xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification_mode: certificate
xpack.security.transport.ssl.keystore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12
xpack.security.transport.ssl.truststore.path: /etc/elasticsearch/config/elastic-certificates.p12

and now when I try to generate certificate for node using ca that I have , it give me this error
following this - https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.6/security-basic-setup-https.html

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ca certificate is not a CA!
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.cli.CertGenUtils.generateSignedCertificate(CertGenUtils.java:250)
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.cli.HttpCertificateCommand.writeCertificateAndKeyDetails(HttpCertificateCommand.java:365)
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.cli.HttpCertificateCommand.writeZip(HttpCertificateCommand.java:267)
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.cli.HttpCertificateCommand.execute(HttpCertificateCommand.java:238)
        at org.elasticsearch.common.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:54)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:85)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:94)
        at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.cli.CertificateTool.execute(CertificateTool.java:160)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:85)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:50)
        at org.elasticsearch.launcher.CliToolLauncher.main(CliToolLauncher.java:64)
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You have cert in there teice

3

ya that was typo. but that part works.

second part is not

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Can you show the actual commands not just error?

Hard.to help without it.

Can you show the actual commands, the output files and errors in sequence?

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Ohh and not sure if another typo

That should be
--ca elastic-certificate-ca.p12

Whenever you use the CA flag this or after it has to be the CA. I don't know if that was a typo too

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