Configuring the Filebeat Service
The Discover installer installs the beats to all the components, but you must configure it and start it from Manage Services in the portal.
About this task
To configure the Filebeat Service, complete the following steps:
Procedure
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From the Discover portal, navigate to
.The Discover Services Management page appears.
- From the WorldView tab, expand the server node and expand the FileBeat Service node.
- Within the FileBeat Service, select the FileBeat configuration file.
- Click View/Edit (Raw).
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Within the
ElasticSearch Output
section, provide the IP address and the port number (9200
) of the server running an instance of the Elastic search engine. -
Within the
FileBeat inputs
section, provide the path or paths to pick the data. -
By default, the value of
enabled
isfalse
. Set it totrue
. -
Click Save.
The Update Server(s) dialog appears.
- Click Add Tasks and Submit.
- In case of muti-server deployment, perform Step 2 to Step 9 for all servers.