How to reinstall X-Pack?

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

Hi Team,

We are using X-Pack now. But after we follow the instructure to uninstall and install it again, we found the license issue date. So if we want to keep using the X-Pack till the actual license purchase, how to do?

Before

{
  "license" : {
    "status" : "active",
    "uid" : "38e6d6bb-8619-45b4-ac50-f38f006942ff",
    "type" : "trial",
    "issue_date" : "2016-11-17T03:49:34.858Z",
    "issue_date_in_millis" : 1479354574858,
    "expiry_date" : "2016-12-17T03:49:34.858Z",
    "expiry_date_in_millis" : 1481946574858,
    "max_nodes" : 1000,
    "issued_to" : "elk5-es-poc-cluster-dev",
    "issuer" : "elasticsearch",
    "start_date_in_millis" : -1
  }
}

After

{
  "license" : {
    "status" : "active",
    "uid" : "38e6d6bb-8619-45b4-ac50-f38f006942ff",
    "type" : "trial",
    "issue_date" : "2016-11-17T03:49:34.858Z",
    "issue_date_in_millis" : 1479354574858,
    "expiry_date" : "2016-12-17T03:49:34.858Z",
    "expiry_date_in_millis" : 1481946574858,
    "max_nodes" : 1000,
    "issued_to" : "elk5-es-poc-cluster-dev",
    "issuer" : "elasticsearch",
    "start_date_in_millis" : -1
  }
}
2

You can ask sales at elastic dot co to extend your trial period.
You can also remove the data dir (which will remove all existing data) and start again elasticsearch.

3

Hi @dadoonet,

So do you mean if we Delete all the data from ES and restart, it will auto extend the license?

4

About the "data dir", can we use
curl -XDELETE -u elastic:changeme 'http://Host:Port/*'
to do the same way?

5

I meant that if you start a new empty cluster with the license plugin it will be considered as a trial license starting from today.

Remove all indices won't work.

If you want to go that way (again it will remove all existing stuff you did):

  • shutdown all you nodes
  • on each node, remove the data dir rm -r data
  • start again the nodes

It's exactly the same thing as provisioning a new machine and installing everything from scratch.

6

Hi Guys,

Is the X-PACK free to use or under trial license? If it is the latter, where can I find the expired date?

thanks.

Cheers,
Chris

7

When you start it, it tells you when the expiration date is in logs.

You have a trial but you can ask for a free basic license which gives you access to monitoring and profiling UI.

See https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions

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