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Step 1: Installing Packetbeat

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Step 1: Installing Packetbeat

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To download and install Packetbeat on your application servers, use the commands that work with your system (deb for Debian/Ubuntu, rpm for Redhat/Centos/Fedora, mac for OS X, and win for Windows).

If you use Apt or Yum, you can install Packetbeat from our repositories to update to the newest version more easily.

See our download page for other installation options, such as 32-bit images.

deb:

sudo apt-get install libpcap0.8
curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat_1.2.3_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i packetbeat_1.2.3_amd64.deb

rpm:

sudo yum install libpcap
curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-1.2.3-x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -vi packetbeat-1.2.3-x86_64.rpm

mac:

curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/beats/packetbeat/packetbeat-1.2.3-darwin.tgz
tar xzvf packetbeat-1.2.3-darwin.tgz

win:

  1. Download and install WinPcap from this page. WinPcap is a library that uses a driver to enable packet capturing.
  2. Download the Packetbeat Windows zip file from the downloads page.
  3. Extract the contents of the zip file into C:\Program Files.
  4. Rename the packetbeat-<version>-windows directory to Packetbeat.
  5. Open a PowerShell prompt as an Administrator (right-click the PowerShell icon and select Run As Administrator). If you are running Windows XP, you may need to download and install PowerShell.

  6. Run the following commands to install Packetbeat as a Windows service:

    PS > cd 'C:\Program Files\Packetbeat'
PS C:\Program Files\Packetbeat> .\install-service-packetbeat.ps1

If script execution is disabled on your system, you need to set the execution policy for the current session to allow the script to run. For example: PowerShell.exe -ExecutionPolicy UnRestricted -File .\install-service-packetbeat.ps1.

Before starting Packetbeat, you should look at the configuration options in the configuration file, for example C:\Program Files\Packetbeat\packetbeat.yml or /etc/packetbeat/packetbeat.yml. For more information about these options, see Configuration Options.

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