License path is empty

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Madhav Gautam
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Introduction

We can set the enterprise license for Vault by using an environment variable. The environment variable VAULT_LICENSE to the license key value.
If we see those errors on the logs 
 [ERROR] core: license reload triggered but license path is empty
    license reload triggered but license path is empty
If you applied for the license through the environment Variables, we must restart the vault to be able to pick up the new license key that was set via environment variables.
Here are the steps: 

Can you please do the following:

  • Remove license_path from vault config file from all servers
  • pkill -SIGHUP vault on all servers to load the above change into config

  • update VAULT_LICENSE to use the new license key

  • Restart vault starting with standby nodes first

We will not see that error once you configured the vault server config file with "license_path" instead of the env variable. If initially vault is configured to use the license from the environment variable, a restart is needed.

 

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