Add ability to define a custom service name when installing as a Windows service (#4753)

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Lee Jaeyong
2018-09-28 10:41:24 +09:00
committed by Daniel Nelson
parent 008ee617cb
commit 6b7d64f1d6
3 changed files with 16 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ Telegraf can manage its own service through the --service flag:
| `telegraf.exe --service start` | Start the telegraf service |
| `telegraf.exe --service stop` | Stop the telegraf service |
## Install multiple services
You can install multiple telegraf instances with --service-name flag:
```
> C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --service install --service-name telegraf-1
> C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --service install --service-name telegraf-2
> C:\"Program Files"\Telegraf\telegraf.exe --service uninstall --service-name telegraf-1
```
Troubleshooting common error #1067
When installing as service in Windows, always double check to specify full path of the config file, otherwise windows service will fail to start