I've been tasked with setting up Curator to delete data more than 40 days old on our existing ELK 6.8.6 server. I did not set up elk and am pretty much unfamiliar with how it is configured. I set up the yum repository, installed the latest curator. I set up a (default) config.yml and action.yml. …

[image] Bruceclegg: http_auth: root: So, this is asking for Elasticsearch credentials, rather than operating system level credentials. Is there someone on your team who could help you get super-user credentials to Elasticsearch?

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theuntergeek (Aaron Mildenstein) March 25, 2020, 5:51pm 3

So, it appears that you were able to connect to the cluster without certs before, it merely needed a username and password.

You should define http_auth to set username and password.

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