The existing privilege model for API keys with privileges like
`manage_api_key`, `manage_security` etc. are too permissive and
we would want finer-grained control over the cluster privileges
for API keys. Previously APIs created would also need these
privileges to get its own information.
This commit adds support for `manage_own_api_key` cluster privilege
which only allows api key cluster actions on API keys owned by the
currently authenticated user. Also adds support for retrieval of
the API key self-information when authenticating via API key
without the need for the additional API key privileges.
To support this privilege, we are introducing additional
authentication context along with the request context such that
it can be used to authorize cluster actions based on the current
user authentication.
The API key get and invalidate APIs introduce an `owner` flag
that can be set to true if the API key request (Get or Invalidate)
is for the API keys owned by the currently authenticated user only.
In that case, `realm` and `username` cannot be set as they are
assumed to be the currently authenticated ones.
The changes cover HLRC changes, documentation for the API changes.
Closes#40031
This commit introduces PKI realm delegation. This feature
supports the PKI authentication feature in Kibana.
In essence, this creates a new API endpoint which Kibana must
call to authenticate clients that use certificates in their TLS
connection to Kibana. The API call passes to Elasticsearch the client's
certificate chain. The response contains an access token to be further
used to authenticate as the client. The client's certificates are validated
by the PKI realms that have been explicitly configured to permit
certificates from the proxy (Kibana). The user calling the delegation
API must have the delegate_pki privilege.
Closes#34396
This commit allows the Transport Actions for the SSO realms to
indicate the realm that should be used to authenticate the
constructed AuthenticationToken. This is useful in the case that
many authentication realms of the same type have been configured
and where the caller of the API(Kibana or a custom web app) already
know which realm should be used so there is no need to iterate all
the realms of the same type.
The realm parameter is added in the relevant REST APIs as optional
so as not to introduce any breaking change.
The Get Users API also returns users form the restricted realm or built-in users,
as we call them in our docs. One can also change the passwords of built-in
users with the Change Password API
* Add Snapshot Lifecycle Management (#43934)
* Add SnapshotLifecycleService and related CRUD APIs
This commit adds `SnapshotLifecycleService` as a new service under the ilm
plugin. This service handles snapshot lifecycle policies by scheduling based on
the policies defined schedule.
This also includes the get, put, and delete APIs for these policies
Relates to #38461
* Make scheduledJobIds return an immutable set
* Use Object.equals for SnapshotLifecyclePolicy
* Remove unneeded TODO
* Implement ToXContentFragment on SnapshotLifecyclePolicyItem
* Copy contents of the scheduledJobIds
* Handle snapshot lifecycle policy updates and deletions (#40062)
(Note this is a PR against the `snapshot-lifecycle-management` feature branch)
This adds logic to `SnapshotLifecycleService` to handle updates and deletes for
snapshot policies. Policies with incremented versions have the old policy
cancelled and the new one scheduled. Deleted policies have their schedules
cancelled when they are no longer present in the cluster state metadata.
Relates to #38461
* Take a snapshot for the policy when the SLM policy is triggered (#40383)
(This is a PR for the `snapshot-lifecycle-management` branch)
This commit fills in `SnapshotLifecycleTask` to actually perform the
snapshotting when the policy is triggered. Currently there is no handling of the
results (other than logging) as that will be added in subsequent work.
This also adds unit tests and an integration test that schedules a policy and
ensures that a snapshot is correctly taken.
Relates to #38461
* Record most recent snapshot policy success/failure (#40619)
Keeping a record of the results of the successes and failures will aid
troubleshooting of policies and make users more confident that their
snapshots are being taken as expected.
This is the first step toward writing history in a more permanent
fashion.
* Validate snapshot lifecycle policies (#40654)
(This is a PR against the `snapshot-lifecycle-management` branch)
With the commit, we now validate the content of snapshot lifecycle policies when
the policy is being created or updated. This checks for the validity of the id,
name, schedule, and repository. Additionally, cluster state is checked to ensure
that the repository exists prior to the lifecycle being added to the cluster
state.
Part of #38461
* Hook SLM into ILM's start and stop APIs (#40871)
(This pull request is for the `snapshot-lifecycle-management` branch)
This change allows the existing `/_ilm/stop` and `/_ilm/start` APIs to also
manage snapshot lifecycle scheduling. When ILM is stopped all scheduled jobs are
cancelled.
Relates to #38461
* Add tests for SnapshotLifecyclePolicyItem (#40912)
Adds serialization tests for SnapshotLifecyclePolicyItem.
* Fix improper import in build.gradle after master merge
* Add human readable version of modified date for snapshot lifecycle policy (#41035)
* Add human readable version of modified date for snapshot lifecycle policy
This small change changes it from:
```
...
"modified_date": 1554843903242,
...
```
To
```
...
"modified_date" : "2019-04-09T21:05:03.242Z",
"modified_date_millis" : 1554843903242,
...
```
Including the `"modified_date"` field when the `?human` field is used.
Relates to #38461
* Fix test
* Add API to execute SLM policy on demand (#41038)
This commit adds the ability to perform a snapshot on demand for a policy. This
can be useful to take a snapshot immediately prior to performing some sort of
maintenance.
```json
PUT /_ilm/snapshot/<policy>/_execute
```
And it returns the response with the generated snapshot name:
```json
{
"snapshot_name" : "production-snap-2019.04.09-rfyv3j9qreixkdbnfuw0ug"
}
```
Note that this does not allow waiting for the snapshot, and the snapshot could
still fail. It *does* record this information into the cluster state similar to
a regularly trigged SLM job.
Relates to #38461
* Add next_execution to SLM policy metadata (#41221)
* Add next_execution to SLM policy metadata
This adds the next time a snapshot lifecycle policy will be executed when
retriving a policy's metadata, for example:
```json
GET /_ilm/snapshot?human
{
"production" : {
"version" : 1,
"modified_date" : "2019-04-15T21:16:21.865Z",
"modified_date_millis" : 1555362981865,
"policy" : {
"name" : "<production-snap-{now/d}>",
"schedule" : "*/30 * * * * ?",
"repository" : "repo",
"config" : {
"indices" : [
"foo-*",
"important"
],
"ignore_unavailable" : true,
"include_global_state" : false
}
},
"next_execution" : "2019-04-15T21:16:30.000Z",
"next_execution_millis" : 1555362990000
},
"other" : {
"version" : 1,
"modified_date" : "2019-04-15T21:12:19.959Z",
"modified_date_millis" : 1555362739959,
"policy" : {
"name" : "<other-snap-{now/d}>",
"schedule" : "0 30 2 * * ?",
"repository" : "repo",
"config" : {
"indices" : [
"other"
],
"ignore_unavailable" : false,
"include_global_state" : true
}
},
"next_execution" : "2019-04-16T02:30:00.000Z",
"next_execution_millis" : 1555381800000
}
}
```
Relates to #38461
* Fix and enhance tests
* Figured out how to Cron
* Change SLM endpoint from /_ilm/* to /_slm/* (#41320)
This commit changes the endpoint for snapshot lifecycle management from:
```
GET /_ilm/snapshot/<policy>
```
to:
```
GET /_slm/policy/<policy>
```
It mimics the ILM path only using `slm` instead of `ilm`.
Relates to #38461
* Add initial documentation for SLM (#41510)
* Add initial documentation for SLM
This adds the initial documentation for snapshot lifecycle management.
It also includes the REST spec API json files since they're sort of
documentation.
Relates to #38461
* Add `manage_slm` and `read_slm` roles (#41607)
* Add `manage_slm` and `read_slm` roles
This adds two more built in roles -
`manage_slm` which has permission to perform any of the SLM actions, as well as
stopping, starting, and retrieving the operation status of ILM.
`read_slm` which has permission to retrieve snapshot lifecycle policies as well
as retrieving the operation status of ILM.
Relates to #38461
* Add execute to the test
* Fix ilm -> slm typo in test
* Record SLM history into an index (#41707)
It is useful to have a record of the actions that Snapshot Lifecycle
Management takes, especially for the purposes of alerting when a
snapshot fails or has not been taken successfully for a certain amount of
time.
This adds the infrastructure to record SLM actions into an index that
can be queried at leisure, along with a lifecycle policy so that this
history does not grow without bound.
Additionally,
SLM automatically setting up an index + lifecycle policy leads to
`index_lifecycle` custom metadata in the cluster state, which some of
the ML tests don't know how to deal with due to setting up custom
`NamedXContentRegistry`s. Watcher would cause the same problem, but it
is already disabled (for the same reason).
* High Level Rest Client support for SLM (#41767)
* High Level Rest Client support for SLM
This commit add HLRC support for SLM.
Relates to #38461
* Fill out documentation tests with tags
* Add more callouts and asciidoc for HLRC
* Update javadoc links to real locations
* Add security test testing SLM cluster privileges (#42678)
* Add security test testing SLM cluster privileges
This adds a test to `PermissionsIT` that uses the `manage_slm` and `read_slm`
cluster privileges.
Relates to #38461
* Don't redefine vars
* Add Getting Started Guide for SLM (#42878)
This commit adds a basic Getting Started Guide for SLM.
* Include SLM policy name in Snapshot metadata (#43132)
Keep track of which SLM policy in the metadata field of the Snapshots
taken by SLM. This allows users to more easily understand where the
snapshot came from, and will enable future SLM features such as
retention policies.
* Fix compilation after master merge
* [TEST] Move exception wrapping for devious exception throwing
Fixes an issue where an exception was created from one line and thrown in another.
* Fix SLM for the change to AcknowledgedResponse
* Add Snapshot Lifecycle Management Package Docs (#43535)
* Fix compilation for transport actions now that task is required
* Add a note mentioning the privileges needed for SLM (#43708)
* Add a note mentioning the privileges needed for SLM
This adds a note to the top of the "getting started with SLM"
documentation mentioning that there are two built-in privileges to
assist with creating roles for SLM users and administrators.
Relates to #38461
* Mention that you can create snapshots for indices you can't read
* Fix REST tests for new number of cluster privileges
* Mute testThatNonExistingTemplatesAreAddedImmediately (#43951)
* Fix SnapshotHistoryStoreTests after merge
* Remove overridden newResponse functions that have been removed
* Fix compilation for backport
* Fix get snapshot output parsing in test
* [DOCS] Add redirects for removed autogen anchors (#44380)
* Switch <tt>...</tt> in javadocs for {@code ...}
Add the "Authorization" section to the API key API docs.
These APIs require The new manage_api_key cluster privilege.
Relates: #43865
Backport of: #43811
This commit changes the `role_descriptors` field from required
to optional when creating API key. The default behavior in .NET ES
client is to omit properties with `null` value requiring additional
workarounds. The behavior for the API does not change.
Field names (`id`, `name`) in the invalidate api keys API documentation have been
corrected where they were wrong.
Closes#42053
Kibana wants to create access_token/refresh_token pair using Token
management APIs in exchange for kerberos tickets. `client_credentials`
grant_type requires every user to have `cluster:admin/xpack/security/token/create`
cluster privilege.
This commit introduces `_kerberos` grant_type for generating `access_token`
and `refresh_token` in exchange for a valid base64 encoded kerberos ticket.
In addition, `kibana_user` role now has cluster privilege to create tokens.
This allows Kibana to create access_token/refresh_token pair in exchange for
kerberos tickets.
Note:
The lifetime from the kerberos ticket is not used in ES and so even after it expires
the access_token/refresh_token pair will be valid. Care must be taken to invalidate
such tokens using token management APIs if required.
Closes#41943
This commit adds a configuration guide for the newly introduced
OpenID Connect realm. The guide is similar to the style of the
SAML Guide and shares certain parts where applicable (role mapping)
It also contains a short section on how the realm can be used for
authenticating users without Kibana.
Co-Authored-By: Lisa Cawley <lcawley@elastic.co>
Backport of #41423 and #42555
The Has Privileges API allows to tap into the authorization process, to validate
privileges without actually running the operations to be authorized. This commit
fixes a bug, in which the Has Privilege API returned spurious results when checking
for index privileges over restricted indices (currently .security, .security-6,
.security-7). The actual authorization process is not affected by the bug.
This adds a new `role_templates` field to role mappings that is an
alternative to the existing roles field.
These templates are evaluated at runtime to determine which roles should be
granted to a user.
For example, it is possible to specify:
"role_templates": [
{ "template":{ "source": "_user_{{username}}" } }
]
which would mean that every user is assigned to their own role based on
their username.
You may not specify both roles and role_templates in the same role
mapping.
This commit adds support for templates to the role mapping API, the role
mapping engine, the Java high level rest client, and Elasticsearch
documentation.
Due to the lack of caching in our role mapping store, it is currently
inefficient to use a large number of templated role mappings. This will be
addressed in a future change.
Backport of: #39984, #40504
X-Pack security supports built-in authentication service
`token-service` that allows access tokens to be used to
access Elasticsearch without using Basic authentication.
The tokens are generated by `token-service` based on
OAuth2 spec. The access token is a short-lived token
(defaults to 20m) and refresh token with a lifetime of 24 hours,
making them unsuitable for long-lived or recurring tasks where
the system might go offline thereby failing refresh of tokens.
This commit introduces a built-in authentication service
`api-key-service` that adds support for long-lived tokens aka API
keys to access Elasticsearch. The `api-key-service` is consulted
after `token-service` in the authentication chain. By default,
if TLS is enabled then `api-key-service` is also enabled.
The service can be disabled using the configuration setting.
The API keys:-
- by default do not have an expiration but expiration can be
configured where the API keys need to be expired after a
certain amount of time.
- when generated will keep authentication information of the user that
generated them.
- can be defined with a role describing the privileges for accessing
Elasticsearch and will be limited by the role of the user that
generated them
- can be invalidated via invalidation API
- information can be retrieved via a get API
- that have been expired or invalidated will be retained for 1 week
before being deleted. The expired API keys remover task handles this.
Following are the API key management APIs:-
1. Create API Key - `PUT/POST /_security/api_key`
2. Get API key(s) - `GET /_security/api_key`
3. Invalidate API Key(s) `DELETE /_security/api_key`
The API keys can be used to access Elasticsearch using `Authorization`
header, where the auth scheme is `ApiKey` and the credentials, is the
base64 encoding of API key Id and API key separated by a colon.
Example:-
```
curl -H "Authorization: ApiKey YXBpLWtleS1pZDphcGkta2V5" http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health
```
Closes#34383
* move watcher to seq# occ
* top level set
* fix parsing and missing setters
* share toXContent for PutResponse and rest end point
* fix redacted password
* fix username reference
* fix deactivate-watch.asciidoc have seq no references
* add seq# + term to activate-watch.asciidoc
* more doc fixes
Types have been deprecated and this commit removes the documentation
for specifying types in the index action, and search input/transform.
Relates #37594#35190
This grants the capability to grant privileges over certain restricted
indices (.security and .security-6 at the moment).
It also removes the special status of the superuser role.
IndicesPermission.Group is extended by adding the `allow_restricted_indices`
boolean flag. By default the flag is false. When it is toggled, you acknowledge
that the indices under the scope of the permission group can cover the
restricted indices as well. Otherwise, by default, restricted indices are ignored
when granting privileges, thus rendering them hidden for authorization purposes.
This effectively adds a confirmation "check-box" for roles that might grant
privileges to restricted indices.
The "special status" of the superuser role has been removed and coded as
any other role:
```
new RoleDescriptor("superuser",
new String[] { "all" },
new RoleDescriptor.IndicesPrivileges[] {
RoleDescriptor.IndicesPrivileges.builder()
.indices("*")
.privileges("all")
.allowRestrictedIndices(true)
// this ----^
.build() },
new RoleDescriptor.ApplicationResourcePrivileges[] {
RoleDescriptor.ApplicationResourcePrivileges.builder()
.application("*")
.privileges("*")
.resources("*")
.build()
},
null, new String[] { "*" },
MetadataUtils.DEFAULT_RESERVED_METADATA,
Collections.emptyMap());
```
In the context of the Backup .security work, this allows the creation of a
"curator role" that would permit listing (get settings) for all indices
(including the restricted ones). That way the curator role would be able to
ist and snapshot all indices, but not read or restore any of them.
Supersedes #36765
Relates #34454
This commit removes the fallback for SSL settings. While this may be
seen as a non user friendly change, the intention behind this change
is to simplify the reasoning needed to understand what is actually
being used for a given SSL configuration. Each configuration now needs
to be explicitly specified as there is no global configuration or
fallback to some other configuration.
Closes#29797
This change:
- Adds functionality to invalidate all (refresh+access) tokens for all users of a realm
- Adds functionality to invalidate all (refresh+access)tokens for a user in all realms
- Adds functionality to invalidate all (refresh+access) tokens for a user in a specific realm
- Changes the response format for the invalidate token API to contain information about the
number of the invalidated tokens and possible errors that were encountered.
- Updates the API Documentation
After back-porting to 6.x, the `created` field will be removed from master as a field in the
response
Resolves: #35115
Relates: #34556
* This commit is part of our plan to deprecate and ultimately remove the use of _xpack in the REST APIs.
- REST API docs
- HLRC docs and doc tests
- Handle REST actions with deprecation warnings
- Changed endpoints in rest-api-spec and relevant file names
- Add the authentication realm and lookup realm name and type in the response for the _authenticate API
- The authentication realm is set as the lookup realm too (instead of setting the lookup realm to null or empty ) when no lookup realm is used.
PR #35242 formalised support for the password_hash field in the body
of the Put User security API.
Since this field is now validated and tested, it can also be
documented.
The Put User API also supports a "refresh" query parameter that was
not documented. This commit adds it to the docs.
* Watcher: fix metric stats names
The current watcher stats metric names doesn't match the current
documentation. This commit fixes the behavior of `queued_watches`
metric, deprecates `pending_watches` metric and adds `current_watches`
to match the documented behavior. It also fixes the documentation, which
introduced `executing_watches` metric that was never added.
Fixes#34865
This enables Elasticsearch to use the JVM-wide configured
PKCS#11 token as a keystore or a truststore for its TLS configuration.
The JVM is assumed to be configured accordingly with the appropriate
Security Provider implementation that supports PKCS#11 tokens.
For the PKCS#11 token to be used as a keystore or a truststore for an
SSLConfiguration, the .keystore.type or .truststore.type must be
explicitly set to pkcs11 in the configuration.
The fact that the PKCS#11 token configuration is JVM wide implies that
there is only one available keystore and truststore that can be used by TLS
configurations in Elasticsearch.
The PIN for the PKCS#11 token can be set as a truststore parameter in
Elasticsearch or as a JVM parameter ( -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword).
The basic goal of enabling PKCS#11 token support is to allow PKCS#11-NSS in
FIPS mode to be used as a FIPS 140-2 enabled Security Provider.
This change removes the wrapping of the created field in the put user
response. The created field was added as a top level field in #32332,
while also still being wrapped within the `user` object of the
response. Since the value is available in both formats in 6.x, we can
remove the wrapped version for 7.0.
This commit adds a security client to the high level rest client, which
includes an implementation for the put user api. As part of these
changes, a new request and response class have been added that are
specific to the high level rest client. One change here is that the response
was previously wrapped inside a user object. The plan is to remove this
wrapping and this PR adds an unwrapped response outside of the user
object so we can remove the user object later on.
See #29827
We need to limit the search request aggregations to whole multiples
of the configured interval for both histogram and date_histogram.
Otherwise, agg buckets won't overlap with the rolled up buckets
and the results will be incorrect.
For histogram, the validation is very simple: request must be >= the config,
and modulo evenly.
Dates are more tricky.
- If both request and config are fixed dates, we can convert to millis
and treat them just like the histo
- If both are calendar, we make sure the request is >= the config with
a static lookup map that ranks the calendar values relatively. All
calendar units are "singles", so they are evenly divisible already
- We disallow any other combination (one fixed, one calendar, etc)
This change adds support for the client credentials grant type to the
token api. The client credentials grant allows for a client to
authenticate with the authorization server and obtain a token to access
as itself. Per RFC 6749, a refresh token should not be included with
the access token and as such a refresh token is not issued when the
client credentials grant is used.
The addition of the client credentials grant will allow users
authenticated with mechanisms such as kerberos or PKI to obtain a token
that can be used for subsequent access.
If a search request doesn't contain aggs (or an empty agg object),
we should just retun an empty response. This is how the normal search
API works if you specify zero hits and empty aggs.
The existing behavior throws an exception because it tries to send
an empty msearch.
Closes#32256
* [DOCS] Add configurable password hashing docs
Adds documentation about the newly introduced configuration option
for setting the password hashing algorithm to be used for the users
cache and for storing credentials for the native and file realm.
- Missing links to new IndexCaps API
- Incorrect security permissions on IndexCaps API
- GetJobs API must supply a job (or `_all`), omitting throws error
- Link to search/agg limitations from RollupSearch API
- Tweak URLs in quick reference
- Formatting of overview page
Previously, we were using a simple CRC32 for the IDs of rollup documents.
This is a very poor choice however, since 32bit IDs leads to collisions
between documents very quickly.
This commit moves Rollups over to a 128bit ID. The ID is a concatenation
of all the keys in the document (similar to the rolling CRC before),
hashed with 128bit Murmur3, then base64 encoded. Finally, the job
ID and a delimiter (`$`) are prepended to the ID.
This gurantees that there are 128bits per-job. 128bits should
essentially remove all chances of collisions, and the prepended
job ID means that _if_ there is a collision, it stays "within"
the job.
BWC notes:
We can only upgrade the ID scheme after we know there has been a good
checkpoint during indexing. We don't rely on a STARTED/STOPPED
status since we can't guarantee that resulted from a real checkpoint,
or other state. So we only upgrade the ID after we have reached
a checkpoint state during an active index run, and only after the
checkpoint has been confirmed.
Once a job has been upgraded and checkpointed, the version increments
and the new ID is used in the future. All new jobs use the
new ID from the start
This commit introduces "Application Privileges" to the X-Pack security
model.
Application Privileges are managed within Elasticsearch, and can be
tested with the _has_privileges API, but do not grant access to any
actions or resources within Elasticsearch. Their purpose is to allow
applications outside of Elasticsearch to represent and store their own
privileges model within Elasticsearch roles.
Access to manage application privileges is handled in a new way that
grants permission to specific application names only. This lays the
foundation for more OLS on cluster privileges, which is implemented by
allowing a cluster permission to inspect not just the action being
executed, but also the request to which the action is applied.
To support this, a "conditional cluster privilege" is introduced, which
is like the existing cluster privilege, except that it has a Predicate
over the request as well as over the action name.
Specifically, this adds
- GET/PUT/DELETE actions for defining application level privileges
- application privileges in role definitions
- application privileges in the has_privileges API
- changes to the cluster permission class to support checking of request
objects
- a new "global" element on role definition to provide cluster object
level security (only for manage application privileges)
- changes to `kibana_user`, `kibana_dashboard_only_user` and
`kibana_system` roles to use and manage application privileges
Closes#29820Closes#31559
This introduces a new GetRollupIndexCaps API which allows the user to retrieve rollup capabilities of a specific rollup index (or index pattern). This is distinct from the existing RollupCaps endpoint.
- Multiple jobs can be stored in multiple indices and point to a single target data index pattern (logstash-*). The existing API finds capabilities/config of all jobs matching that data index pattern.
- One rollup index can hold data from multiple jobs, targeting multiple data index patterns. This new API finds the capabilities based on the concrete rollup indices.
There is currently no way to see what user executed a watch. This commit
adds the decrypted username to each execution in the watch history, in a
new field "user".
Closes#31772
This change adds stats about forecasts, to the jobstats api as well as xpack/_usage. The following
information is collected:
_xpack/ml/anomaly_detectors/{jobid|_all}/_stats:
- total number of forecasts
- memory statistics (mean/min/max)
- runtime statistics
- record statistics
- counts by status
_xpack/usage
- collected by job status as well as overall (_all):
- total number of forecasts
- number of jobs that have at least 1 forecast
- memory, runtime, record statistics
- counts by status
Fixes#31395
This is related to #31325. There is currently information about the
get-trial-status api on the start-trial api documentation page. It also
has the incorrect route for that api. This commit removes that
information as the start-trial page properly links to a page providing
documenation about get-trial-status.
- All rollup pages should be marked as experimental instead of just
the top page
- While the job config docs state which aggregations are allowed, adding
a section which specifically details this in one place is more convenient
for the user
- Add a clarification that the DeleteJob API does not delete the rollup
data, just the rollup job.
This change adds a grok_pattern field to the GET categories API
output in ML. It's calculated using the regex and examples in the
categorization result, and applying a list of candidate Grok
patterns to the bits in between the tokens that are considered to
define the category.
This can currently be considered a prototype, as the Grok patterns
it produces are not optimal. However, enough people have said it
would be useful for it to be worthwhile exposing it as experimental
functionality for interested parties to try out.
This is related to #30134. It modifies the start_trial action to require
an acknowledgement parameter in the rest request to actually start the
trial license. There are backwards compatibility issues as prior ES
versions did not support this parameter. To handle this, it is assumed
that a request coming from a node prior to 6.3 is acknowledged. And
attempts to write a non-acknowledged request to a prior to 6.3 node will
throw an exception.
Additionally this PR adds messages about the trial license the user is
generating.