# Update Basic License
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-basic-license/108731
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 22, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-basic-license/108731 "2017-11-22T14:49:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@saad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/saad)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-basic-license/108731/1 "2017-11-22T14:49:53Z")
Hi,
I did the basic license and download the .json file. I am trying to update the license but using the following code
curl -XPUT "[http://x.x.x.x:9200/\_xpack/license](http://x.x.x.x:9200/_xpack/license)" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @license.json -u elastic
Then elastic asking me for the password and when When I entered the coorect password I got the following response
{"acknowledged":false,"license\_status":"valid","acknowledge":{"message":"This license update requires acknowledgement. To acknowledge the license, please read the following messages and update the license again, this time with the "acknowledge=true" parameter:","watcher":["Watcher will be disabled"],"logstash":["Logstash specific APIs will be disabled, but you can continue to manage and poll stored configurations"],"security":["The following X-Pack security functionality will be disabled: authentication, authorization, ip filtering, and auditing. Please restart your node after applying the license.","Field and document level access control will be disabled.","Custom realms will be ignored."],"monitoring":["Multi-cluster support is disabled for clusters with [BASIC] license. If you are\nrunning multiple clusters, users won't be able to access the clusters with\n[BASIC] licenses from within a single X-Pack Kibana instance. You will have to deploy a\nseparate and dedicated X-pack Kibana instance for each [BASIC] cluster you wish to monitor.","Automatic index cleanup is locked to 7 days for clusters with [BASIC] license."],"graph":["Graph will be disabled"],"ml":["Machine learning will be disabled"]}}
What I have to do after this. I checked the license by using -XGET and found its still on "trail" type
Thank you
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### Author:  [@dkyle](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dkyle)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-basic-license/108731/2 "2017-11-22T15:36:53Z")
Hi,
The message is quite hard to read in that format but hidden in there is the line `To acknowledge the license, please read the following messages and update the license again, this time with the "acknowledge=true" parameter:"`
Did you try `curl -XPUT "http://x.x.x.x:9200/_xpack/license?acknowledge=true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @license.json -u elastic`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/update-basic-license/108731/3 "2017-12-20T15:37:10Z")
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