Issue coming when trying to active trial

Elastic Search
1

HI,

below is my elastic cluster -

{
"name" : "myappserver2",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"cluster_uuid" : "RK_4iG_2TYqjuVy-1pmb9Q",
"version" : {
"number" : "8.6.1",
"build_flavor" : "default",
"build_type" : "tar",
"build_hash" : "180c9830da956993e59e2cd70eb32b5e383ea42c",
"build_date" : "2023-01-24T21:35:11.506992272Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "9.4.2",
"minimum_wire_compatibility_version" : "7.17.0",
"minimum_index_compatibility_version" : "7.0.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}

I am running command to activate trial..
curl -X POST "localhost:9200/_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true&pretty"

but i am getting this error-
{
"error": {
"root_cause": [
{
"type": "security_exception",
"reason": "missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true&pretty]",
"header": {
"WWW-Authenticate": [
"Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8"",
"ApiKey"
]
}
}
],
"type": "security_exception",
"reason": "missing authentication credentials for REST request [/_license/start_trial?acknowledge=true&pretty]",
"header": {
"WWW-Authenticate": [
"Basic realm="security" charset="UTF-8"",
"ApiKey"
]
}
},
"status": 401
}

can anyone please guide me how can we get API KEY.. provide me link and how to use in curl command.

2

Welcome!

You need to use the credentials which have been generated when you first started the cluster or the updated login / passwords if you changed that.

Note that if you are running Kibana as well, you can activate the trial from the web interface.

3

Thanks so much for your response.
Do you steps how can we enable this using Kibana..

and i downloaded the package and set the user name as elastic initially.. so i didn;t set any mail yet.. do you have some sample how can we pass credentials in curl command.. i mean what parameter we need to give in header and body for user name and password to pass to ES.

4

Thanks so much for your response.
Do you steps how can we enable this using Kibana..

5

See License Management | Kibana Guide [8.11] | Elastic

6

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