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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