# Failing license installation

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [March 31, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426 "2023-03-31T11:01:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![fbacchella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@fbacchella](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/fbacchella)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426/1 "2023-03-31T11:01:59Z")

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**Elasticsearch version:**  
7.17.9  
**Server OS version:**  
CentOS Linux release 8.5.2111  
Search Guard version:  
53.6.0

When trying to install the license using sgadmin, it fails with:  
FAIL: Expected 7 config types for node XXXX but got 0 () due to: Invalid license: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant com.floragunn.searchguard.configuration.SearchGuardLicense.Type.SME-1

And in the logs:

[2023-03-31T12:42:22,898][ERROR][c.f.s.a.c.TransportConfigUpdateAction] [enclave] Invalid license  
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant com.floragunn.searchguard.configuration.SearchGuardLicense.Type.SME-1  
at java.lang.Enum.valueOf(Enum.java:274) ~[?:?]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.configuration.SearchGuardLicense$Type.valueOf(SearchGuardLicense.java:287) ~[search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.configuration.SearchGuardLicense.(SearchGuardLicense.java:124) ~[search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.action.configupdate.TransportConfigUpdateAction.nodeOperation(TransportConfigUpdateAction.java:122) [search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.action.configupdate.TransportConfigUpdateAction.nodeOperation(TransportConfigUpdateAction.java:49) [search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction.nodeOperation(TransportNodesAction.java:192) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$NodeTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportNodesAction.java:333) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.nodes.TransportNodesAction$NodeTransportHandler.messageReceived(TransportNodesAction.java:327) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.ssl.transport.SearchGuardSSLRequestHandler.messageReceivedDecorate(SearchGuardSSLRequestHandler.java:164) [search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.transport.SearchGuardRequestHandler.messageReceivedDecorate(SearchGuardRequestHandler.java:150) [search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.ssl.transport.SearchGuardSSLRequestHandler.messageReceived(SearchGuardSSLRequestHandler.java:86) [search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at com.floragunn.searchguard.SearchGuardPlugin$7.lambda$interceptHandler$0(SearchGuardPlugin.java:690) [search-guard-suite-security-7.17.9-53.6.0.jar:7.17.9-53.6.0]  
at org.elasticsearch.transport.RequestHandlerRegistry.processMessageReceived(RequestHandlerRegistry.java:67) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at org.elasticsearch.transport.TransportService$6.doRun(TransportService.java:1045) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:777) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:26) [elasticsearch-7.17.9.jar:7.17.9]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144) [?:?]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642) [?:?]  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1589) [?:?]

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**Author:** ![pablo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/pablo/32/1443_2.png) [@pablo](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/pablo)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426/2 "2023-03-31T16:34:42Z")

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@fbacchella Have you tried to upload the license using Kibana UI?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/search_guard/original/2X/1/1341f04d1ff675a9622c40b5926858c22c9d1eee.png)

If you purchased Search Guard support services with the license, you could try to open the case in the SG support portal.

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**Author:** ![fbacchella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f14d63/32.png) [@fbacchella](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/fbacchella)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426/3 "2023-03-31T21:21:24Z")

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Same result.

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**Author:** ![marc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@marc](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/marc)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426/4 "2023-04-04T18:04:24Z")

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Hi @fbacchella we’ll review your license key - please see (and reply to) my recent DM

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/system/32/1870_2.png) [@system](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/failing-license-installation/2426/5 "2023-04-25T18:04:50Z")

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