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kibana-verification-code

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kibana-verification-code

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The kibana-verification-code tool retrieves a verification code for enrolling a Kibana instance with a secured Elasticsearch cluster.

Synopsis

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bin/kibana-verification-code
[-V, --version] [-h, --help]

Description

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Use this command to retrieve a verification code for Kibana. You enter this code in Kibana when manually configuring a secure connection with an Elasticsearch cluster. This tool is useful if you don’t have access to the Kibana terminal output, such as on a hosted environment. You can connect to a machine where Kibana is running (such as using SSH) and retrieve a verification code that you enter in Kibana.

You must run this tool on the same machine where Kibana is running.

Parameters

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-h, --help
Returns all of the command parameters.
-V, --version
Displays the Kibana version number.

Examples

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The following command retrieves a verification code for Kibana.

bin/kibana-verification-code
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