# Modules and pipelines - Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml'

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modules-and-pipelines-ignoring-the-pipelines-yml/120852>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 21, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modules-and-pipelines-ignoring-the-pipelines-yml/120852 "2018-02-21T13:43:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![collse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/collse/32/54197_2.png) [@collse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/collse)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modules-and-pipelines-ignoring-the-pipelines-yml/120852/1 "2018-02-21T13:43:03Z")

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Hi,

still trying to get a grip on this but I want to use the netflow plugin of logstash but surely at the same time not sacrifice my other configuration but I cant find any information if this is even possible or how this should be done.

when I restart logstash I receive the following error: Ignoring the 'pipelines.yml' file because modules or command line options are specified - which obviously ignores all my .conf files and stops that ingestion.

I couldnt find any information how else to run the module but from within the logstash.conf - so with the lack of further information on this I am chasing my own tail here ..

I would think that both is somehow possible I just cannot find the right documentation pointing me towards it.

any suggestion or clarification on this would be highly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![collse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/collse/32/54197_2.png) [@collse](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/collse)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modules-and-pipelines-ignoring-the-pipelines-yml/120852/2 "2018-02-21T14:55:17Z")

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ok I figured it out myself ....

what I did, in case anyone else might come up with this is, I had a look at the logs and found the configuration as its being shipped, copied it to my logstash/conf.d directory and removed all variables and added absolute paths ... works and keeps the previous configuration, index, dashboards that were installed by the plugin ...

so: cp /usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration/logstash/netflow.conf.erb /etc/logstash/conf.d/netflow.conf

set the input:

> input {  
> udp {  
> type =\> "netflow"  
> port =\> 2055  
> codec =\> netflow {  
> versions =\> [5,9]  
> }  
> workers =\> 2  
> receive\_buffer\_bytes =\> 212992  
> queue\_size =\> 2000  
> }  
> }

set all paths eg:

> dictionary\_path =\> "/usr/share/logstash/modules/netflow/configuration/logstash/dictionaries/name.yml"

set the output to the correct, previous index

> output {  
> elasticsearch { hosts =\> ["localhost:9200"]  
> index =\> "netflow-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}" }  
> stdout { codec =\> rubydebug }  
> }

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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:** [March 21, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/modules-and-pipelines-ignoring-the-pipelines-yml/120852/3 "2018-03-21T14:55:29Z")

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