Hi Linwood,
you can enable the status feature by editing your collector_sidecar.yml,
add 'send_status: true' to it.
https://github.com/Graylog2/collector-sidecar#configuration

Cheers,
Marius


On 8 August 2016 at 17:06, Linwood Ferguson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is a bug, or some setup problem I have, or a
> misunderstanding.
>
> I had a nxlog collector sidecar set up in 2.0.mumble (I see the old kit
> just says "latest", sorry). It was working, but I wanted to try the
> arbitrary text add on and installed 2.1 beta 1.
>
> After doing so, when I go to the collectors display, I would see a host
> with my test PC name, and status "Unknown".  I am pretty sure there used to
> be a different status there, and moreover I think I could click on the host
> name and see something useful.
>
> Now I get "Unknown" and "no status information found".
>
> So... I thought this was a need for a later version of the sidecar program
> (maybe I had a mis-match), so I downloaded 0.0.9 for x64.  I (eventually)
> removed the old and cleaned up after the move from (x86), and got it
> running, and ... still says "unknown".
>
> It is working (it was working before I upgraded the sidecar program also).
>
> I am able to go into manage configuration.  On the chance it was wrong, I
> deleted the whole configuration and recreated each of the pieces, and got
> them working again.  Data flowing, nxlog's log has data and no errors.
> When I hit "show collector" it again shows "uinknown".
>
> The collector Id file on the PC contains the same id as the collector ID
> shown on the screen line that shows "unknown".   The "Last seen" alternates
> between "in a few seconds" and "a few seconds ago" (I guess Thiotimoline is
> invovled somehow).
>
> If I stop the collector-sidecar service on the PC, it goes inactive and
> disappears; I can bring it back by clicking the "Show inactive".  It still
> says status "unknown".   start it again, it comes back as active, but still
> "unknown".
>
> Was I supposed to do something different in upgrading that might cause
> this?
>
>
>
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