# Beats for legacy OS
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918 "2021-03-11T10:07:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@kunal\_patil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunal_patil)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 10:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918/1 "2021-03-11T10:07:44Z")
Looking for a way to have beats essentially metricbeat, filebeat to work on older operating systems SLES 9, 10 etc to monitor the servers which are hosting legacy applications. I am getting "panic" errors like below for SLES 9, 32 bit.
metricbeat-6.2.2 - panic: open /dev/urandom: function not implemented
or
metricbeat-7.8.0 - fatal error: unexpected signal during runtime execution
futexwakeup addr=0xe65ae0c returned -38
futexwakeup addr=0xe66f2e0 returned -38
fatal error: unexpected signal during runtime execution
futexwakeup addr=0xe864c0c returned -38
fatal error: unexpected signal during runtime execution
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x1006 pc=0x97842a2]
I understand that the versions of SLES I am using are not compatible but is there any way I can get server metrics using metricbeat? Any work around that will help?
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### Author:  [@Andre\_Letterer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Letterer)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918/2 "2021-03-16T00:28:55Z")
Hi Kunal,
I'm afraid you are right.
For such old SLES variants I'm afraid there is no support any more.
I mean metricbeat 5.0 came out October 2016
> **[Beats 5.0.0 Released | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/beats-5-0-0-released)**
And at that time SLES 10 support already ended, so SLES9 and SLES10 are old and old, so I'm afraid there is not much we can do.
> **[SUSE Linux Enterprise Server](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server)**
>
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux-based operating system developed by SUSE. It is designed for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. Major versions are released at an interval of 3–4 years, while minor versions (called "Service Packs") are released about every 12 months. SUSE Linux Enterprise products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, receive more intense testing than the upstream openSUSE community product, with t...
I didn't even find maybe a vagrantbox for a short reproduction lab, so there is not much we can do.
What support is valid for the most recent versions can always be seen on our support matrix:
> **[Free and Open Search: The Creators of Elasticsearch, ELK & Kibana | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#metricbeat)**
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### Author:  [@kunal\_patil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kunal_patil)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918/3 "2021-03-17T11:05:19Z")
Hi Andre, thank you for the reply. Anything you can think of that I can try out to get it working (apart from OS upgrade 🙂 ). I understand what you have mentioned but as I am still trying to solve the problem that I have, any suggestions are welcome.
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### Author:  [@Andre\_Letterer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Letterer)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918/4 "2021-03-17T11:11:39Z")
I don't think so Kunal, because metricbeat relies on certain kernel parameters obviously these older SLES versions don't have.
And unfortunately like I already mentioned there is no available vagrant machine that I could even test.
If you can provide a vagrant machine I am happy to do a deeper root cause for reproduction.
But the actual assumption is that I will be able to get a description for you of the why it is not working, but not that you will get a working variant of this, at least as far as I can see for now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2021, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-for-legacy-os/266918/5 "2021-04-14T13:12:13Z")
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