Help me to Activate X-Pack security on Elasticsearch 5.6.15

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Hi,

I have installed elasticsearch 5.6.15 on one of my node. I want to secure my elasticsearch. I have also installed the same version of x-pack plugin. and I have chenged the following in elasticsearch.yml file

xpack.security.enabled: true
action.auto_create_index: .security,.monitoring*,.watches,.triggered_watches,.watcher-history*,.ml*

But It is not asking password while i am interacting with API like cluster health, node detail, indices, etc...
How can i protect it with password. While accessing any API i want user to give password...

Please help me in this.

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With 5.6.15, you need to have a trial or commercial license.

From 6.8.0 and 7.1.0, it's available for free in the basic license.
I'd suggest you to upgrade first, then activate it.

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Thanks for feedback,

But our need is on this version only. If we go to latest version there is huge change in code. and we I am first trying on trial version and plan to purchase license. So please help me. When i see in elasticsearch log file it shows trial but accessing API it is directly accessible without asking password.. our business needs authentication to elasticsearch... So please help me.

Thanks

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Did you read and follow the steps in this guide?

Did you restart the nodes? What are elasticsearch logs?

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I have follow the same steps and I have not created elasticsearch as service. I am running it as .bat file.. So you can say I have closed and open that bat file ... So we can say restarted the node..

In log file it also shows me x-pack plugin loaded.
But what is the issue i am confused why it is not asking for password while interacting with API...

So can you please help me deeper....Please

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Can you share the logs?

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