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     MKBEATINSTALLER(8)                             MKBEATINSTALLER(8)

     NAME
          mkbeatinstaller, mkfilebeatinstaller, mkwinlogbeatinstaller
          - make elastic beat Windows installers

     SYNOPSIS
          mkbeatinstaller beat ...
          mkfilebeatinstaller
          mkwinlogbeatinstaller

     DESCRIPTION
          mkfilebeatinstaller and mkwinlogbeat installer are two NSIS
          scripts which create executable installers for the elastic
          beat programs filebeat and winlogbeat in the familiar Win-
          dows "Next, Next, Done" install wizard style.  Execution of
          the scripts requires the makensis(1) command, generally
          available from the nsis package on Linux distributions.

          The scripts package the beat configuration files, the exe-
          cutable command and license files. On installation, the
          files are copied to the Program Files directory. A standard
          windows service is registered which starts the beat's exe
          file.  uninstall.exe removes the installation directory and
          removes the service from the windows service registry.

          mkbeatinstaller will download the compiled Windows distribu-
          tion of beat from Elastic, then run the matching beat
          installer generation script.

     EXAMPLE
          Make installers for filebeat and winlogbeat:
          mkbeatinstaller filebeat winlogbeat

     FILES
          C:/Program Files/$beat installation directory
          C:/Program Files/$beat/uninstall.exe uninstallation program

     SEE ALSO
          makensis(1)
          https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Main_Page

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