# Trial license not basic
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trial-license-not-basic/204206
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 18, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trial-license-not-basic/204206 "2019-10-18T10:53:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tpetersen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tpetersen)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 10:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trial-license-not-basic/204206/1 "2019-10-18T10:53:06Z")
Hi there,
Been setting up HTTPS security on a cluster (version 6.8.0) and I have this in my eleasticsearch.yml
xpack.license.self\_generated.type: basic
But I see this when I check the logs
> [2019-10-18T12:36:14,091][WARN][o.e.l.LicenseService] [ESTEST] License [will expire] on [Friday, November 08, 2019].
> If you have a new license, please update it. Otherwise, please reach out to
> your support contact.
Any one have a clue as to why? I have only added features under the basic license
My elasticsearch.yml
> cluster.name: "test-cluster"
> node.name: "esdata-0"
> path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
> path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
> discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["esdata-0:9300","esdata-1:9300","esdata-2:9300","esdata-3:9300"]
> discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 3
> node.master: true
> node.data: true
> network.host: [_site_, _local_]
> node.max\_local\_storage\_nodes: 1
> node.attr.fault\_domain: 0
> node.attr.update\_domain: 0
> cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes: fault\_domain,update\_domain
> xpack.license.self\_generated.type: basic
> xpack.monitoring.collection.enabled: true
> xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
> xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate
> xpack.security.transport.ssl.key: /etc/elasticsearch/Private.key
> xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate: /etc/elasticsearch/certificate
> xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate\_authorities: ["/etc/elasticsearch/ServerCA.crt"]
> xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true
> xpack.security.http.ssl.key: /etc/elasticsearch/Private.key
> xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate: /etc/elasticsearch/certificate
> xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate\_authorities: ["/etc/elasticsearch/ServerCA.crt"]
> bootstrap.memory\_lock: true
Help is appriciated
Best regards
Thomas
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### Author:  [@Igor\_Motov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Igor_Motov)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trial-license-not-basic/204206/2 "2019-10-18T18:12:32Z")
Is it possible that trial was activated after the inital setup? Could you check the logs for Oct 9 to see if you there is a line that looks like
```auto
[2019-10-18T20:05:43,519][INFO][o.e.l.LicenseService] [XXXX] license [XXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX] mode [trial] - valid
```
In any case if you are not using any non-basic features you can [go back to basic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/start-basic.html) at any time.
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### Author:  [@tpetersen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tpetersen)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trial-license-not-basic/204206/3 "2019-10-21T05:06:27Z")
Hi Igor,
Sorry but don't have the log files from the 9th ☹
But I got it to set to Basic with "POST /\_license/start\_basic?acknowledge=true" so thanks for that link, that did the trick 🙂
Not sure why it switched to Trial, since I haven't had any thing activated that require a licence.
Best regards
Thomas
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2019, 5:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/trial-license-not-basic/204206/4 "2019-11-18T05:06:29Z")
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