Sidecar 1.0.0 issues

Graylog Central (peer support)
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I’m having two specific issues with 1.0 that weren’t there in 0.8.1.

  1. First problem is that when installing Sidecar on a Windows 7 machine, there isn’t a service that gets created like in 0.8.1. I successfully created a sidecar/configuration in Graylog 3.0 but the only time the status turns to running is when I manually run C:\program files\graylog\sidecar\graylog-sidecar.exe
  2. when installing graylog side car, in .8.1 a node-id file (was collector-id) gets created automatically from the UUID of the machine. I handled this manually using a batch file for install. Just would like clarification on why change this when it made the install process so easy on windows

I need a resolution to #1 as soon as possible please. I tried to “sc create” using graylog-sidecar.exe but that fails no matter how i spin it. Here is the syntax “sc create graylogscservice binpath=“C:\Program Files\Graylog\sidecar\graylog-sidecar.exe” start=auto”.

2

I got the syntax wrong but still, why isn’t this just done from the deployment

3

No need to use sc create. The Sidecar should come with an option to install itself:

C:\Program Files\Graylog\sidecar\graylog-sidecar.exe -service install

EDIT:
At one point I wrote a small Powershell script to automate the installation of the Sidecar on our Windows boxen.

$Repository="\\FILESERVER\Installers\Graylog\Graylog Sidecar 0.1.6"
$DownloadDir="C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads"
$InstallPath = "C:\Program Files\graylog\collector-sidecar"

copy "${Repository}\collector_sidecar_installer_0.1.6-1.exe" ${DownloadDir}

copy \\PKISERVER\CAchain.pem ${DownloadDir}

copy ${DownloadDir}\CAchain.pem C:\Windows\System32

$Hostname = (hostname)

Start-Process -FilePath "${DownloadDir}\collector_sidecar_installer_0.1.6-1.exe" -ArgumentList "/S -SERVERURL=https://GRAYLOGSERVER:9000/api -TAGS=`"windows`" -NODEID=`"collector-sidecar-${Hostname}`""
sleep 15
Start-Process -FilePath "${InstallPath}\Graylog-collector-sidecar.exe" -ArgumentList "-service install"
sleep 5
Start-Process -FilePath "${InstallPath}\Graylog-collector-sidecar.exe" -ArgumentList "-service stop"
sleep 5
Start-Process -FilePath "${InstallPath}\Graylog-collector-sidecar.exe" -ArgumentList "-service start"

The CAchain.pem file is the CA certificate chain, which is used by my BEATS outputs, which do certificate validation. The path C:\Windows\System32\CAchain.pemis used in the definition of the BEATS output.

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Awesome, thank you for your reply!