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Step 4: Starting Heartbeatedit
Start Heartbeat by issuing the appropriate command for your platform.
If you use an init.d script to start Heartbeat on deb or rpm, you can’t specify command line flags (see Command Line Options). To specify flags, start Heartbeat in the foreground.
deb:
sudo /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
rpm:
sudo /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
mac:
sudo ./heartbeat -e -c heartbeat.yml -d "publish"
win:
PS C:\Program Files\Heartbeat> Start-Service heartbeat
By default, Windows log files are stored in C:\ProgramData\heartbeat\Logs.
Heartbeat is now ready to check the status of your services and send events to your defined output.