# X-pack license couldn't update
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 31, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844 "2017-10-31T07:19:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@f26227279](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f26227279)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/1 "2017-10-31T07:19:11Z")
`C:\Users\infoblox\Downloads\curl>curl -XPUT -u elastic "http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "@C:\Users\infoblox\Downloads\license.json"`
Enter host password for user 'elastic':
{"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"],"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"]}}
thank you in advance!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/2 "2017-10-31T07:50:19Z")
> [@f26227279](#):
>
> To acknowledge the license, please read the following messages and update the license again, this time with the "acknowledge=true" parameter:"
Did you add that?
```auto
C:\Users\infoblox\Downloads\curl>curl -XPUT -u elastic "http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license&acknowledge=true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "@C:\Users\infoblox\Downloads\license.json"
```
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### Author:  [@f26227279](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f26227279)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/3 "2017-10-31T08:45:10Z")
still can't work
C:\Users\infoblox\Downloads\curl\>curl -XPUT -u elastic "[http://localhost:9200/\_xpack/license&acknowledge=true](http://localhost:9200/_xpack/license&acknowledge=true)" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "@C:\Users\infoblox\Downloads\license.json"
Enter host password for user 'elastic':
No handler found for uri [/\_xpack/license&acknowledge=true] and method [PUT]
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/4 "2017-10-31T08:48:32Z")
? not &
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/5 "2017-10-31T08:55:14Z")
Ahh, thanks for spotting that mistake 🙂
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### Author:  [@f26227279](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f26227279)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2017, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/6 "2017-10-31T08:58:16Z")
ok done!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2017, 8:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-license-couldnt-update/105844/7 "2017-11-28T08:58:16Z")
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