# Autoprovisioning Sidecar-Clients

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/autoprovisioning-sidecar-clients/21997>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/autoprovisioning-sidecar-clients/21997 "2021-12-08T17:15:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![KPS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@KPS](https://community.graylog.org/u/KPS)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 5:15pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/autoprovisioning-sidecar-clients/21997/1 "2021-12-08T17:15:55Z")

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Hi!

I am trying to fully understand the concept of sidecars to monitor my windows eventlogs.  
The documentation did allow me to fully configure a test-client, but now, I would have to automate the process.

What I was not able to solve:  
How can I have rules, that assign configurations to sidecar-clients? Currently, I have to assign the winlogbeats-config manually for every system. Is there something like a ruleset hidden?

Thank you for your help!  
KPS

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**Author:** ![tmacgbay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/tmacgbay/32/3878_2.png) [@tmacgbay](https://community.graylog.org/u/tmacgbay)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/autoprovisioning-sidecar-clients/21997/2 "2021-12-08T18:24:12Z")

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I wanted this to be possible too but it is likely up too someone creating an external script and the Graylog API for now. You can add a thumbs up or comment on the feature request in Github:

> <https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues/10454>
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> When Sidecar is installed on 1000s of machines, it is unpractical to assign conf…igurations manually. Therefore, there should be a way in the UI to set a default configuration for each Log Collector type.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/autoprovisioning-sidecar-clients/21997/3 "2021-12-22T18:24:20Z")

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