Installation Guide for UTMStack Winlogbeat agent for Windows Server 2008

Created by Juan Manuel Libera Frómeta, Modified on Tue, 07 Feb 2023 at 07:43 AM by Juan Manuel Libera Frómeta

1. Download Winlogbeat at the following link  https://www.elastic.co/downloads/beats/winlogbeat

2. Unzip the file in C:\Program Files

3. Rename folder to Winlogbeat

4.Configure winlogbeat.yml file with probe data and certificates

winlogbeat.event_logs:

- name: Application

   ignore_older: 72h

- name: System

- name: Security

- name: Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational

- name: Windows PowerShell

  event_id: 400, 403, 600, 800

- name: Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational

  event_id: 4103, 4104, 4105, 4106

- name: ForwardedEvents

  tags: [forwarded]

#==================== Elasticsearch template setting ====================

setup.template.settings:

index.number_of_shards: 3

#----------------------------- Logstash output --------------------------------

output.logstash:

hosts: ['IP al que se van enviar los logs:5044']

ssl.certificate_authorities: ['C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat\keys\ca.crt']

ssl.certificate: 'C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat\keys\client.crt'

ssl.key: 'C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat\keys\client.key'

ssl.verification_mode: none
#==========================Processors =====================================
processors:
- add_host_metadata:
  when.not.contains.tags: forwarded
- add_cloud_metadata: ~ 
**You must generate the certificates yourself and save them in the specified path:
C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat\Keys\
5.Run a PowerSehell console as administrator and run the following command

cd 'C:\Program Files\Winlogbeat'

.\install-service-winlogbeat.ps1

**If script execution is disabled on your system, you must configure the execution policy of the current session to allow the script to be executed. 

For example PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-winlogbeat.ps1.

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