# Develop a console to manage several Filebeats client

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [April 14, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424 "2017-04-14T15:28:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![rschirin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rschirin/32/45283_2.png) [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424/1 "2017-04-14T15:28:58Z")

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Hi, in my thoughts there is the idea to create a console, or something similar, to manage the start & stop of every Filebeat clients in my environment. Leaving out the network necessary configurations, did you faces anytime these type of idea?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424/2 "2017-04-17T05:44:45Z")

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A lot of people use config management for this - Puppet, chef, ansible, salt etc.

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**Author:** ![rschirin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rschirin/32/45283_2.png) [@rschirin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rschirin)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 9:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424/3 "2017-04-19T09:01:11Z")

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first of all, really thanks for your answer that I will us a line guide.  
just to be more detailed, do you have any other informations about them or some case study?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424/4 "2017-04-19T10:01:22Z")

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That's pretty broad, I'd suggest you jump on google (or whatever) and have a look.

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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:** [May 17, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/develop-a-console-to-manage-several-filebeats-client/82424/5 "2017-05-17T10:10:43Z")

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