How to run Metricbeat as a service on SUSE enterprise 11

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Hi,

I have installed Meticbeat on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 using the .rpm package. I am also able to start metricbeat from the command line using the command 'sudo ./metricbeat -e'.
However when I try to start it as a service using the command 'sudo service metricbeat start', it gives an error saying service metricbeat not found.
Can you please help with this isssue?

Best Regards,
Arun

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Hello,

Thanks for the metricbeat question. Which version of metricbeat are you running? Also which service pack of SLES 11 are you running?

I used the following vagrant box:
https://app.vagrantup.com/elastic/boxes/sles-11-x86_64

I was able to install metricbeat, but I hit an issue with running the service command. Perhaps this is an issue only on my minimal vagrant box. Do you also have this issue?

vagrant-sles-11sp4-x64:~ # rpm -q metricbeat
metricbeat-7.3.2-1
vagrant-sles-11sp4-x64:~ # chkconfig --list metricbeat
metricbeat                0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off
vagrant-sles-11sp4-x64:~ # service metricbeat status
/etc/init.d/metricbeat: line 38: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/metricbeat: line 42: status: command not found
/etc/init.d/metricbeat: line 88: status: command not found
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Hi,

Thanks a lot for the reply. My metricbeat version is metricbeat-7.3.1-x86_64.
And yes, I am also getting the exact same error:

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I get the same error - Suse 11 - for Filebeat in my case (assume the same init script though?)

sethaironfire:/etc/init.d # sudo service filebeat status
/etc/init.d/filebeat: line 38: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: No such file or directory
/etc/init.d/filebeat: line 42: status: command not found
/etc/init.d/filebeat: line 88: status: command not found

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I found a similar issue for openSUSE.

Do you know if SLES 11 supports systemd? I suspect that SLES began supporting systemd in SLES 12 since that is the version of SLES we test/support for beats.

https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix

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Thanks,

Managed to get it half working using some code from a guy who posted a Suse specific init file.
If I get it working properly, I’ll feed back

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That sounds great. Please let us know if you have further questions.

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Thanks a lot. Will wait for your reply :smiley:

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