# Filebeat 6.5.0 - Error: unknown command "enroll" for "filebeat"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [November 14, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729 "2018-11-14T19:33:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndrewMcQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewmcq/32/23131_2.png) [@AndrewMcQ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndrewMcQ)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/1 "2018-11-14T19:33:52Z")

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Testing new Beats central management and the 6.5.0 version of filebeat (downloaded today) states that "enroll" is an unknown command for filebeat.

C:\beats\filebeat-6.5.0-windows-x86\_64\>filebeat.exe enroll  
Error: unknown command "enroll" for "filebeat"  
Run 'filebeat --help' for usage.

C:\beats\filebeat-6.5.0-windows-x86\_64\>filebeat version  
filebeat version 6.5.0 (amd64), libbeat 6.5.0 [ff5b9b3db49856a25b5eda133b6997f2157a4910 built 2018-11-09 17:54:46 +0000 UTC]

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**Author:** ![AndrewMcQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewmcq/32/23131_2.png) [@AndrewMcQ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndrewMcQ)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/2 "2018-11-14T21:36:00Z")

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Tried the Linux agent and it does have the "enroll" option for filebeat. Could the above error only be from the Windows version? Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 12:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/3 "2018-11-15T12:38:51Z")

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Hi @AndrewMcQ,

Thank you for reporting back! I'm wondering, what version of Filebeat did you download? Can you share the URL?

Best regards

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**Author:** ![AndrewMcQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewmcq/32/23131_2.png) [@AndrewMcQ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AndrewMcQ)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/4 "2018-11-15T12:41:15Z")

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The win 64bit

[https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.5.0-windows-x86\_64.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-6.5.0-windows-x86_64.zip)

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/5 "2018-11-15T13:44:00Z")

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Hi @AndrewMcQ,

This seems to be an issue in our packaging, I've opened [https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9096](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9096) to research and fixing it.

Thank you for your feedback!

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**Author:** ![Brett\_Larson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brett_larson/32/37700_2.png) [@Brett\_Larson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brett_Larson)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/6 "2018-11-15T21:49:20Z")

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I am also having this issue. glad to see it's not just me 🙂

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**Author:** ![exekias](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/exekias/32/28718_2.png) [@exekias](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/exekias)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/7 "2018-11-16T10:22:32Z")

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We have fixed this issue, next release (6.5.1, to be released soon) will include the fix.

Thank you for your feedback!

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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:** [December 14, 2018, 10:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-6-5-0-error-unknown-command-enroll-for-filebeat/156729/8 "2018-12-14T10:22:37Z")

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