Hi Phil,
could you try to start the Sidecar in foreground mode. Just open a shell
and go to the installation directory. Start the Sidecar with
graylog-collector-sidecar.
Post the output you see here, maybe we can see some problems.

Cheers,
Marius

On 29 July 2016 at 13:16, Phil Sumner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble getting sidecar/NXLog working with Windows.
>
> I've installed graylog-sidecar & nxlog on Windows Server 2008R2 and
> installed/started it as a service.
>
> I've installed NXLog and removed the service.
>
> My collector_sidecar.yml looks like this (paths to nxlog all checked to be
> correct):
> server_url: http://10.x.x.x:12900
> update_interval: 10
> tls_skip_verify: false
> node_id: shaadc02
> collector_id: file:C:\Program Files (x86)\graylog\collector-sidecar\
> collector-id
> log_path: C:\Program Files (x86)\graylog\collector-sidecar\logs\
> log_rotation_time: 86400
> log_max_age: 604800
> tags:
>     - windows
> backends:
>     - name: nxlog
>       enabled: false
>       binary_path: C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog\nxlog.exe
>       configuration_path: C:\Program Files (x86)\graylog\collector-sidecar
> \generated\nxlog.conf
>
> I've set up a collector configuration:
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-byD9-nf2Npo/V5s4gtym70I/AAAAAAABbIE/-FAIf2eMvP8Zz4ayXLSDg4sZieia5vk1ACLcB/s1600/Capture.PNG>
>
>
>
> I can see the new collector checking in:
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zBvvbHYm2m8/V5s5Dj8oJEI/AAAAAAABbII/_R_NHjzGJOkVDkJsi0P_18sA-378FbX-QCLcB/s1600/Capture.PNG>
>
>
> The snippet in the tag config is the default:
> {{if .Linux}}
> User nxlog
> Group nxlog
> Moduledir /usr/lib/nxlog/modules
> CacheDir /var/spool/collector-sidecar/nxlog
> PidFile /var/run/graylog/collector-sidecar/nxlog.pid
> define LOGFILE /var/log/graylog/collector-sidecar/nxlog.log
> LogFile %LOGFILE%
> LogLevel INFO
>
> <Extension logrotate>
>     Module  xm_fileop
>     <Schedule>
>         When    @daily
>         Exec    file_cycle('%LOGFILE%', 7);
>      </Schedule>
> </Extension>
> {{end}}
>
> {{if .Windows}}
> Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
> CacheDir %ROOT%\data
> Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
> SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
> LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log
> LogLevel INFO
>
> <Extension logrotate>
>     Module  xm_fileop
>     <Schedule>
>         When    @daily
>         Exec    file_cycle('%ROOT%\data\nxlog.log', 7);
>      </Schedule>
> </Extension>
> {{end}}
>
>
> nxlog.conf is this:
> define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog
>
> Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
> CacheDir %ROOT%\data
> Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
> SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
> LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log
>
> <Extension gelf>
>     Module xm_gelf
> </Extension>
>
>
> But I never see anything in the ...\generated\ folder, and nxlog never
> starts.
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Phil
>
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