Install fails on Windows 2012

[callahan22]

Hi,

I can't find any documentation for a Windows install that works. I've got a working ES cluster. I'm installing onto the first Elastic node in the cluster. I know I need the VC++ 2015.3 v140 toolset for desktop (x86,x64) installed so I've installed it.

Following the installation instructions step by step, I run: pip install elastalert - it fails. The output is as follows:

Installing collected packages: blist, jmespath, docutils, six, python-dateutil, botocore, s3transfer, boto3, configparser, croniter, envparse, exotel,
 requests-toolbelt, pbr, defusedxml, oauthlib, requests-oauthlib, jira, jsonschema, mock, PyStaticConfiguration, simplejson, docopt, stomp.py, texttab
le, pytz, PyJWT, pysocks, twilio, elastalert
  Running setup.py install for blist ... error
    Complete output from command "c:\program files (x86)\python36-32\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\_ADMNE~1.ARN\
\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-62ork27v\\blist\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close(
);exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\_ADMNE~1.ARN\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-u0gr1_pk\install-record.txt --single-ver
sion-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build\lib.win32-3.6
    creating build\lib.win32-3.6\blist
    copying blist\_btuple.py -> build\lib.win32-3.6\blist
    copying blist\_sorteddict.py -> build\lib.win32-3.6\blist
    copying blist\_sortedlist.py -> build\lib.win32-3.6\blist
    copying blist\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.6\blist
    running build_ext
    building 'blist._blist' extension
    creating build\temp.win32-3.6
    creating build\temp.win32-3.6\Release
    creating build\temp.win32-3.6\Release\blist
    cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -DBLIST_FLOAT_RADIX_SORT=1 "-Ic:\program files (x86)\python36-32\include" "-Ic:\program files (x86)\pyt
hon36-32\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.10240.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\include\\shared" "-I
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\include\\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\include\\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits
\8.1\include\\cppwinrt" /Tcblist/_blist.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-3.6\Release\blist/_blist.obj
    error: command 'cl.exe' failed: No such file or directory

[callahan22]

After a day of fiddling with elastalert, I've finally got it installed. Looks like it needs Python 2.7. Unless I've been blind, I didn't see this mentioned anywhere in the documentation. Feel free to link me to somewhere it does that I've missed. While far from complete, hopefully this should be enough to save someone else a full day of head scratching...

Windows 2012

1. Install Python 2.7
2. Open a Admin powershell
3. Enter: cd c:\pyton27\Scripts
4. Enter: python -m pip install --upgrade pip
5. Add c:\Python27\Scripts to the environment variables
6. Install Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 as follows (it will not install by double clicking it):
7. Open admin command prompt
8. Type: net user administrator /active:yes
9. In same command prompt, navigate to the VCForPython27.msi and execute it
10. In an admin Powershell, run .\pip install elastalert
11. Create a directory called elastalert on C:\ or within your Elastic folder (placement is irrelevant)
12. Download the zip from the GIT Master (https://github.com/Yelp/elastalert)
13. Extract the zip file and copy config.yaml.example file to your newly created folder
14. Copy the example_rules folder from the extracted folder to your new elastalert folder
15. Rename your example_rules folder to "rules" and rename the config.yaml.example file to config.yaml
16. Open your config.yaml file and change the entries to match your environment

17. Open the rules/example_frequency.yaml file and change the following entries:

    **es_host:** _enter your ES server or round robin DNS name for your cluster here
    **es_port:** 9200
    **index:** one_of_your_indexes-*
    **filter:** Use the reference here: http://elastalert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes/writing_filters.html

Once those are saved, you can go back to your Powershell window and run the following to test your filter:

1. cd c:\Python27\scripts
2. .\elastalert-test-rule c:\PATH_TO_YOUR_RULES_FOLDER\rules\example_frequency.yaml

That should give you some useful feedback and at least get things moving. This obviously doesn't cover adding the elastalert index into your ES cluster. These steps should bring you up to the "Setting up Elasticsearch" section of the official guide: http://elastalert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/running_elastalert.html#downloading-and-configuring

[ormam]

there are no scripts directory in the python directory and the pip is not out there where did you download your python?

[stokedout]

Hi Orman, take the latest minor release of python 2.7. In my case today it was 2.7.15.

[srinivas946]

@callahan22 looking at the issue the problem with blist file better to download the appropriate wheel file from this link and run it. blist_wheel