Hi,
I want to install winlogbeat in Windows 2016 Standard x64 with Winlogbeat 6.4.0 x64
When I execute the winlogbeat.exe to confirm the configuration file or anything, The console also response error in below.
FYI: I ran a quick sanity check by running both Winlogbeat 6.4.0 binaries (x86 and x86_64) on Windows Server 2016 Standard with the default configuration. No crashes observed.
What do you mean exactly? Running .\winlogbeat.exe alone causes it to crash? This would still read in the config file even if not specified. Does .\winlogbeat.exe version crash (this won't read config)? I think it would be best to share what you have configured if you can.
It would be good to double check that download wasn't corrupt with Get-FileHash .\winlogbeat.exe | Format-List. For the .exe I get a sha256 sum of d1f28c68f0c32274c363a34d9205b5396da03e17d5365c2bea0ea8ea657312c4.
Is there anything special about this environment? Are you running any security tools like EMET? Just trying to find something that might help us reproduce it on our end.
Hi Andrewkroh,
I download the Winlogbeat 6.4.0 x64 version from website and unzip to "C:\Program File" folder. then i running the winlogbeat.exe in DOS mode, I not modify parameters in winlogbeat.yml, the winlogbeat.yml config in below.
###################### Winlogbeat Configuration Example ##########################
# This file is an example configuration file highlighting only the most common
# options. The winlogbeat.reference.yml file from the same directory contains all the
# supported options with more comments. You can use it as a reference.
#
# You can find the full configuration reference here:
# https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/winlogbeat/index.html
#======================= Winlogbeat specific options ==========================
# event_logs specifies a list of event logs to monitor as well as any
# accompanying options. The YAML data type of event_logs is a list of
# dictionaries.
#
# The supported keys are name (required), tags, fields, fields_under_root,
# forwarded, ignore_older, level, event_id, provider, and include_xml. Please
# visit the documentation for the complete details of each option.
# https://go.es.io/WinlogbeatConfig
winlogbeat.event_logs:
- name: Application
ignore_older: 72h
- name: Security
- name: System
#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ==========================
setup.template.settings:
index.number_of_shards: 3
#index.codec: best_compression
#_source.enabled: false
#================================ General =====================================
# The name of the shipper that publishes the network data. It can be used to group
# all the transactions sent by a single shipper in the web interface.
#name:
# The tags of the shipper are included in their own field with each
# transaction published.
#tags: ["service-X", "web-tier"]
# Optional fields that you can specify to add additional information to the
# output.
#fields:
# env: staging
#============================== Dashboards =====================================
# These settings control loading the sample dashboards to the Kibana index. Loading
# the dashboards is disabled by default and can be enabled either by setting the
# options here, or by using the `-setup` CLI flag or the `setup` command.
#setup.dashboards.enabled: false
# The URL from where to download the dashboards archive. By default this URL
# has a value which is computed based on the Beat name and version. For released
# versions, this URL points to the dashboard archive on the artifacts.elastic.co
# website.
#setup.dashboards.url:
#============================== Kibana =====================================
# Starting with Beats version 6.0.0, the dashboards are loaded via the Kibana API.
# This requires a Kibana endpoint configuration.
setup.kibana:
# Kibana Host
# Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 5601)
# In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: http://localhost:5601/path
# IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:5601
#host: "localhost:5601"
#============================= Elastic Cloud ==================================
# These settings simplify using winlogbeat with the Elastic Cloud (https://cloud.elastic.co/).
# The cloud.id setting overwrites the `output.elasticsearch.hosts` and
# `setup.kibana.host` options.
# You can find the `cloud.id` in the Elastic Cloud web UI.
#cloud.id:
# The cloud.auth setting overwrites the `output.elasticsearch.username` and
# `output.elasticsearch.password` settings. The format is `<user>:<pass>`.
#cloud.auth:
#================================ Outputs =====================================
# Configure what output to use when sending the data collected by the beat.
#-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------
output.elasticsearch:
# Array of hosts to connect to.
hosts: ["localhost:9200"]
# Optional protocol and basic auth credentials.
#protocol: "https"
#username: "elastic"
#password: "changeme"
#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------
#output.logstash:
# The Logstash hosts
#hosts: ["localhost:5044"]
# Optional SSL. By default is off.
# List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications
#ssl.certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"]
# Certificate for SSL client authentication
#ssl.certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem"
# Client Certificate Key
#ssl.key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key"
#================================ Logging =====================================
# Sets log level. The default log level is info.
# Available log levels are: error, warning, info, debug
#logging.level: debug
# At debug level, you can selectively enable logging only for some components.
# To enable all selectors use ["*"]. Examples of other selectors are "beat",
# "publish", "service".
#logging.selectors: ["*"]
#============================== Xpack Monitoring ===============================
# winlogbeat can export internal metrics to a central Elasticsearch monitoring
# cluster. This requires xpack monitoring to be enabled in Elasticsearch. The
# reporting is disabled by default.
# Set to true to enable the monitoring reporter.
#xpack.monitoring.enabled: false
# Uncomment to send the metrics to Elasticsearch. Most settings from the
# Elasticsearch output are accepted here as well. Any setting that is not set is
# automatically inherited from the Elasticsearch output configuration, so if you
# have the Elasticsearch output configured, you can simply uncomment the
# following line.
#xpack.monitoring.elasticsearch:
Hi Adrisr,
Thank for your reply. If need any information about this server, please let me know, i will provide it.
I had install Winlogbeat in other Server with windows 2016 as wall. But just only this server have problems.
OS: Windows Server 2016 Standard x64 (Version 1607 ,OS Build 14393.0)
Winlogbeat : 6.4.0 x64 Bit
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