Windows

Before installing the agent on the operating systems we support below, you need to download the certificate according to the instructions at Initialize Certificate . The download file will contain the certificates used to authenticate with the vMonitor Logs system. Use this information with the instructions below to complete Agent for Log setup.

Setting

Determine the type of agent you want to install and follow that agent's instructions below:

Filebeat

Download filebeat at https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/beats/filebeat/filebeat-8.7.1-windows-x86_64.zip Unzip the downloaded filebeat folder Copy the files user.cer.pem, user.key.pem, VNG.trust.pem from the certificate folder to the extracted filebeat folder. Let's say below we have extracted filebeat into a folderC:\filebeat-8.7.1-windows-x86_64 Manually run the command below with PowerShell Copy cd C:\filebeat-8.7.1-windows-x86_64 .\filebeat.exe -c .\filebeat.yml In which: In the filebeat.yml file, we have set up the example in the download certificate folder as below to push the content of file C:\agent.log to the system. Copy filebeat.inputs: - type: log paths: - C:\agent.log output.kafka: hosts: ["$BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS"] topic: $TOPIC partition.round_robin: reachable_only: false required_acks: 1 compression: gzip max_message_bytes: 1000000 ssl.certificate_authorities: - $PATH_FILE_VNG_TRUST_PEM ssl.certificate: $PATH_FILE_USER_CER_PEM ssl.key: $PATH_FILE_USER_KEY_PEM ssl.verification_mode: "none" logging.level: info logging.to_files: true logging.files: path: /var/log/filebeat name: filebeat keepfiles: 7 permissions: 0644 In there: At inputthe path to the log file At output, the variables you need to fill in are taken from the certificate download step above: $BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS, $TOPICtaken from file info.md $PATH_FILE_VNG_TRUST_PEM,$PATH_FILE_USER_CER_PEM,$PATH_FILE_USER_KEY_PEMis the path to the file VNG.trust.pem user.cer.pem user.key.pem Install a service that runs in the background: On powershell when entering the filebeat path Copy .\install-service-filebeat.ps1 We recommend that you try running it manually first to identify the problem if there is any.
Copy cd C:\filebeat-8.7.1-windows-x86_64 .\filebeat.exe -c .\filebeat.yml
Copy filebeat.inputs: - type: log paths: - C:\agent.log output.kafka: hosts: ["$BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS"] topic: $TOPIC partition.round_robin: reachable_only: false required_acks: 1 compression: gzip max_message_bytes: 1000000 ssl.certificate_authorities: - $PATH_FILE_VNG_TRUST_PEM ssl.certificate: $PATH_FILE_USER_CER_PEM ssl.key: $PATH_FILE_USER_KEY_PEM ssl.verification_mode: "none" logging.level: info logging.to_files: true logging.files: path: /var/log/filebeat name: filebeat keepfiles: 7 permissions: 0644
Copy .\install-service-filebeat.ps1