Required Plugins - Exchange Setup

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I followed the guides to configure watcher to send an email using this documentation, Configuring Watcher to Send Email | Elasticsearch Watcher [2.4] | Elastic, but whenever I add the exchange settings into my elasticsearch.yml file I get errors over and over like the following and Elasticsearch fails to start:

Suppressed: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [watcher.actions.email.service.account.exchange_account.smtp.password] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:293) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:256) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsModule.(SettingsModule.java:139) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:342) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$6.(Bootstrap.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:360) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:67) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
Suppressed: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [watcher.actions.email.service.account.exchange_account.smtp.port] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings

If i remove the configurations from the elasticsearch.yml file and start elasticsearch, it starts just fine. I can query "curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_watcher/stats?pretty'", and get a normal response like so:

{
"watcher_state" : "starting",
"watch_count" : 0,
"execution_thread_pool" : {
"queue_size" : 0,
"max_size" : 0
},
"manually_stopped" : false
}

The following query would tell me that watcher is working fine before the exchange entry has been made in the elasticsearch.yml file, so what could be causing this issue? I pretty much copy and pasted the configuration from the documentation, only changing the username and password. It's almost like when I make that entry elasticsearch is acting like the watcher module doesn't exist. I installed watcher from xpack and according to the documentation I just needed to add that entry into my elasticsearch.yml file and it is supposed to work...

2

hey,

which Elasticsearch version are you using?

--Alex

3

5.4.0. It was also installed from the RPM, and have had nothing but issues with it.

4

I got onto the wrong documentation, was in the watcher documentation, when I needed to be in the xpack documentation. This can be closed.

5

Hey,

glad you had it solved. If there are issues with the RPM, please be more specific, happy to help solving them.

--Alex

6

Same problem with standard profile

Suppressed: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown setting [watcher.actions.email.service.account.work.smtp.host] please check that any required plugins are installed, or check the breaking changes documentation for removed settings
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:293) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.AbstractScopedSettings.validate(AbstractScopedSettings.java:256) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.settings.SettingsModule.<init>(SettingsModule.java:139) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.<init>(Node.java:342) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.<init>(Node.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$6.<init>(Bootstrap.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:242) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:360) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:123) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:114) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:67) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:91) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
        at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.0.jar:5.4.0]
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The solution to this is already posted above. You used the configuration for Elasticsearch 2.x but should use the parameters for x-pack, as you are using Elasticsearch 5.x.

See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.4/actions-email.html#configuring-email

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