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[trondhindenes]

I have used the setup.ps1 and generate.exe to set up my Windows diego cell. I'm noticing MetronService keeps crashing, with the following warning showing up in the app log: C:/diego-windows-release/loggregator/src/metron/api/app_v2.go:39 +0x52d.

• An error that makes a service throw/exit should be at Error level at a minimum
• There's not much to go at in terms of troubleshooting. Why not surface the real error instead of just referring to the line in the running go subroutine?
• I'm assuming that there's something wrong with how the DiegoWindows installer sets up certificates, but I have no idea how to troubleshoot it, from the limited information I've found. How do I get this working?

[cf-gitbot]

We have created an issue in Pivotal Tracker to manage this:

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[sunjayBhatia]

@trondhindenes is there anything helpful in the Windows Event Log? Have you been able to get around this?

[trondhindenes]

As far as I can see, the generate.exe doesn't pick up all cert-related settings from the bosh definition (i'm pointing to a file, not the bosh server). If I copy the corresponding metron config file from a linux-based node and start the windows metron process against it everything works. Still, the error message / error handling is fairly terrible on Windows right now. It should verify that it gets a sane config file at startup and provide a human-understandable error message if it doesn't. Also, the config just restarts the windows service in an endless loop on crash, which is also suboptimal (imho).

[sunjayBhatia]

this project is soon to be attic-ed and is no longer supported, it is recommended all Windows CF deployments use BOSH deployed cells

closing due to inactivity, we can open this up again if need be