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Published Jun. 30, 2025

How to enable Liferay Enterprise Search Security (X-Pack)

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Gergely Szalay

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Issue

  • We have a requirement to turn on the authentication and monitoring for our Elasticsearch server, but after downloading the Liferay Enterprise Search Security, we can't enable it because it requires credentials
  • How can we get those credentials and enable the security features for Elasticsearch?

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.0-7.4
  • Elasticsearch 6.x

Resolution

  • To activate Liferay security and authentication, you will need a Liferay Enterprise Search (LES) subscription. 
  • This subscription gets you additional features beyond what’s available out of the box with your Liferay DXP subscription. it includes:
    • Liferay Enterprise Search Security*
    • Liferay Enterprise Search Monitoring
    • Liferay Enterprise Search Learning to Rank
  • Please note that LES subscription is not necessary if using Elasticsearch 7 as X-Pack’s security features are bundled

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