# Couldn't start the Wmibeat as Windows Service **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Created:** [March 16, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-start-the-wmibeat-as-windows-service/78829 "2017-03-16T09:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![prakash1243](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/35a633/32.png) [@prakash1243](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prakash1243)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2017, 9:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-start-the-wmibeat-as-windows-service/78829/1 "2017-03-16T09:31:47Z")
Hi - I've added the wmibeats as a service on a windows-7 server, when I tried to start the service, its throwing the below error: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/2/72fe37e18c02befe50d1c026d736a3186b584226.png) Could you please let me know, how do I fix this issue ? I had put my configuration below: ############################# wmibeat ###################################### wmibeat: # Defines how often an event is sent to the output period: 1s enabled: true classes: - class: Win32\_OperatingSystem fields: - FreePhysicalMemory - FreeSpaceInPagingFiles - FreeVirtualMemory - NumberOfProcesses - NumberOfUsers ``` - class: Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk fields: - Name - FreeMegabytes - PercentFreeSpace - PercentIdleTime - CurrentDiskQueueLength - DiskReadsPerSec - DiskWritesPerSec - DiskBytesPerSec - PercentDiskReadTime - PercentDiskWriteTime - PercentDiskTime whereclause: Name = "_Total" objecttitlecolumn: Name - class: Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor fields: - PercentPrivilegedTime - PercentInterruptTime - PercentProcessorTime - PercentUserTime whereclause: Name = "_Total" - class: Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_PhysicalDisk fields: - Name - PercentIdleTime - AvgDisksecPerRead - AvgDisksecPerWrite - AvgDiskQueueLength - DiskReadsPerSec - DiskWritesPerSec - DiskBytesPerSec - PercentDiskReadTime - PercentDiskWriteTime - PercentDiskTime whereclause: Name != "_Total" objecttitlecolumn: Name - class: Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Memory fields: - CommittedBytes - AvailableBytes - PercentCommittedBytesInUse - CacheBytes objecttitlecolumn: Name ``` ############################################################################### ############################# Libbeat Config ################################## # Base config file used by all other beats for using libbeat features ############################# Output ########################################## # Configure what outputs to use when sending the data collected by the beat. # Multiple outputs may be used. output: ### Elasticsearch as output elasticsearch: # Array of hosts to connect to. # Scheme and port can be left out and will be set to the default (http and 9200) # In case you specify and additional path, the scheme is required: [http://localhost:9200/path](http://localhost:9200/path) # IPv6 addresses should always be defined as: https://[2001:db8::1]:9200 hosts: ["localhost:9200"] ``` # Optional protocol and basic auth credentials. #protocol: "https" #username: "admin" #password: "s3cr3t" # Dictionary of HTTP parameters to pass within the url with index operations. #parameters: #param1: value1 #param2: value2 # Number of workers per Elasticsearch host. #worker: 1 # Optional index name. The default is "wmibeat" and generates # [wmibeat-]YYYY.MM.DD keys. #index: "wmibeat-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" # A template is used to set the mapping in Elasticsearch # By default template loading is disabled and no template is loaded. # These settings can be adjusted to load your own template or overwrite existing ones #template: # Template name. By default the template name is wmibeat. #name: "wmibeat" # Path to template file #path: "wmibeat.template.json" # Overwrite existing template #overwrite: true # Optional HTTP Path #path: "/elasticsearch" # Proxy server url #proxy_url: http://proxy:3128 # The number of times a particular Elasticsearch index operation is attempted. If # the indexing operation doesn't succeed after this many retries, the events are # dropped. The default is 3. #max_retries: 3 # The maximum number of events to bulk in a single Elasticsearch bulk API index request. # The default is 50. #bulk_max_size: 50 # Configure http request timeout before failing an request to Elasticsearch. #timeout: 90 # The number of seconds to wait for new events between two bulk API index requests. # If `bulk_max_size` is reached before this interval expires, addition bulk index # requests are made. #flush_interval: 1 # Boolean that sets if the topology is kept in Elasticsearch. The default is # false. This option makes sense only for Packetbeat. #save_topology: false # The time to live in seconds for the topology information that is stored in # Elasticsearch. The default is 15 seconds. #topology_expire: 15 # tls configuration. By default is off. #tls: # List of root certificates for HTTPS server verifications #certificate_authorities: ["/etc/pki/root/ca.pem"] # Certificate for TLS client authentication #certificate: "/etc/pki/client/cert.pem" # Client Certificate Key #certificate_key: "/etc/pki/client/cert.key" # Controls whether the client verifies server certificates and host name. # If insecure is set to true, all server host names and certificates will be # accepted. In this mode TLS based connections are susceptible to # man-in-the-middle attacks. Use only for testing. #insecure: true # Configure cipher suites to be used for TLS connections #cipher_suites: [] # Configure curve types for ECDHE based cipher suites #curve_types: [] # Configure minimum TLS version allowed for connection to logstash #min_version: 1.0 # Configure maximum TLS version allowed for connection to logstash #max_version: 1.2 ``` Thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 9:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-start-the-wmibeat-as-windows-service/78829/2 "2017-03-17T09:45:36Z")
As wmibeat is a community beat, I would recommend you to open an issue directly in the wmibeat repo so @eskibars can see it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/couldnt-start-the-wmibeat-as-windows-service/78829/3 "2017-04-06T09:32:13Z")
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