Error running it on Windows 2012 R2 64-bit server

[sudarshanb]

Hi, I followed all the steps in the GitHub documentation. But when I am trying to run last command $ ./pivotal_agent, it gives me error saying that:

'pivotal_agent' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I have tried with or without '.'

So, is this plugin supported on 64-bit windows? OR am i missing something?

Thanks for your help!

[wjs-broadcom]

I'm not aware of this ever being used on Windows. It is very possible that additional actions are going to be needed. You're welcome to submit a pull request with any updates on getting it running on windows. At this time, however, all I can say is that it has never been tested on windows.

[Eric-Lemmon]

We got the New Relic RabbitMQ plugin working on Windows 2012 R2 64-bit server with these steps.

• Install rubyinstaller-2.2.3-x64.msi (the "Ruby 2.2.3 (x64)" link at http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/), accepting all defaults, except checking these two boxes:
  • Add Ruby executables to your PATH
  • Associate .rb and .rbw files with this Ruby installation
• Install the Ruby DevKit (http://dl.bintray.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/DevKit-mingw64-64-4.7.2-20130224-1432-sfx.exe)
• Extract to C:\Ruby22-x64\DevKit.
• Run these commands at an administrative command prompt, and keep the command window open for later:

c:
cd c:\Ruby22-x64\DevKit
ruby dk.rb init

• Verify that this line exists at the end of c:\Ruby22-x64\DevKit\config.yml; if not, append it:

- C:\Ruby22-x64

• Go back to the command prompt, and run this:

ruby dk.rb install

• Install the bundler gem:

gem install bundler

• Unzip newrelic_pivotal_agent-pivotal_agent-1.0.5.tar.gz to your desired path.
• Update this file to include your license_key and rabbitmq management_api_url, and deleting everything below the RabbitMQ section. (This of course may be different for you, if you are monitoring other products besides just RabbitMQ.)

newrelic_pivotal_agent-pivotal_agent-1.0.5\config\template_newrelic_plugin.yml

• Rename template_newrelic_plugin.yml to newrelic_plugin.yml
• Bundle the New Relic plugin:

bundle install

• Save this CA certificate bundle to disk: http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem (This will be used in the SslCertFilePath appSetting below.)
• We chose to wrap this in a Windows service, so we created a quick 'n dirty C# service, NewRelicRabbitMQAgent.exe, with the following code:

    Process _process = null;

    protected override void OnStart(string[] args)
    {
        var rubyExePath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["RubyExePath"];
        var pivotalAgentPath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PivotalAgentPath"];
        var sslCertFilePath = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SslCertFilePath"];

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(rubyExePath) || 
            string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(pivotalAgentPath) || 
            string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(sslCertFilePath))
            throw new ConfigurationErrorsException("AppSettings RubyExePath, PivotalAgentPath, and/or SslCertFilePath are missing.");

        try
        {
            // Ruby doesn't know about SSL CAs, so reference (for only current process) the CA certs file.
            Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("SSL_CERT_FILE", sslCertFilePath);

            // Start the Pivotal agent, keeping a reference to it, so it can be stopped easily.
            _process = Process.Start(rubyExePath, pivotalAgentPath);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            var appLog = new EventLog();
            appLog.Source = "NewRelicRabbitMQAgent";
            appLog.WriteEntry(string.Format("Error starting ruby process.\r\n{0}", ex.ToString()));
            throw;
        }
    }

    protected override void OnStop()
    {
        try
        {
            _process.Kill();
            _process.Dispose();
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            var appLog = new EventLog();
            appLog.Source = "NewRelicRabbitMQAgent";
            appLog.WriteEntry(string.Format("Error stopping service.\r\n{0}", ex.ToString()));
        }
    }

• Install and start the Windows service:

sc create "New Relic RabbitMQ Agent" binPath= "c:\{YOUR PATH}\newrelic-rabbitmq-agent-1.0.5\WindowsService\NewRelicRabbitMQAgent.exe"
sc description "New Relic RabbitMQ Agent" "Sends RabbitMQ statistics from the RMQ API to New Relic for reporting and alerting"
sc config "New Relic RabbitMQ Agent" start=auto
sc failure "New Relic RabbitMQ Agent"  actions= restart/180000/restart/180000/restart/180000 reset= 0
net start "New Relic RabbitMQ Agent"

• Open the Services MMC console to verify that the service has started.
• Verify that New Relic shows stats coming in (a few minutes after the service starts)