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Using TLS between Beats and Logstash

The purpose of this document is to help with configuring and troubleshooting using TLS on the connection between Beats and Logstash.

Configuration

You must configure TLS on both the client and server to make this work. This

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nginx and Go Daddy SSL certificates
Generate the CSR:
1 openssl genrsa 2048 > yourhost.com.key
2 openssl req -new -key yourhost.com.key > yourhost.com.csr
Enter in whatever you want - you NEED the "Common Name" everything else is not really required for it to work.
01 Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:US
02 State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:.
03 Locality Name (eg, city) []:.
04 Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Something Here
05 Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:.

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# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

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Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

Convert WAV to MP3, mix down to mono (use 1 audio channel), set bit rate to 64 kbps and sample rate to 22050 Hz:

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Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

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1. Clone your fork:

git clone [email protected]:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream