# Beats Central Management Questions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-central-management-questions/204123>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** fleet\
**Created:** [October 17, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-central-management-questions/204123 "2019-10-17T20:14:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![mgotechlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mgotechlock](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mgotechlock)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-central-management-questions/204123/1 "2019-10-17T20:14:39Z")

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Easy questions that I have not been able to determine the answer to yet.

1. Does Beats Central Management support other beats besides FileBeat and MetricBeat because those are my only two options when I click Enroll Beats? Winlogbeat?
2. Do other people successfully enroll the manual way, via filebeat enroll url --username....? I just get "Error creating a new enrollment token: error while parsing Kibana response: json: cannot unmarshal string into Go struct field BaseResponse.error of type api.ErrorResponse" everytime.
3. Maybe somebody smarter than me can post how you've automated the deployment of a CM managed filebeat?

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**Author:** ![bigdamhero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bigdamhero/32/34478_2.png) [@bigdamhero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bigdamhero)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-central-management-questions/204123/2 "2020-01-03T20:25:09Z")

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First time answerer....

1. No
2. sounds like might need more info to answer, is this a windows or linux machine you are trying to enroll on?
3. In digging into this myself I have found a project which is supposed to be called "fleet" wherein you will be able to deploy fleets of beats. I anxiously await its eminent launch.  
Hope this is somewhat helpful.

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**Author:** ![gborg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/gborg/32/58934_2.png) [@gborg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gborg)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-central-management-questions/204123/3 "2020-02-24T09:38:47Z")

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Late reply, but yeah BCM is being deprecated so maybe going into that now is not the best idea but I'll still answer your questions

1: No  
2: never tried it  
3: When I was researching BCM I wrote a small python/flask script that talked directly to the kibana API and had it generate tokens, so you could just do "curl myInternalUrl "and it returned "filebeat --enroll --token --something --something"

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-central-management-questions/204123/4 "2022-11-04T07:29:52Z")

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