winevt-service.xml

<service>
  
<!-- 
SECTION: Mandatory options
All options in other sections are optional 
-->
  
  <!-- ID of the service. It should be unique accross the Windows system-->
  <id>winevt-syslog</id>
  <!-- Display name of the service -->
  <name>Winevt Syslog</name>
  <!-- Service description -->
  <description>Forward Windows events to syslog</description>
  
  <!-- Path to the executable, which should be started -->
  <executable>%BASE%\winevt-syslog.exe</executable>

<!--
SECTION: Installation
These options are being used during the installation only.
Their modification will not take affect without the service re-installation.
-->

  <!--
    OPTION: serviceaccount
    Defines account, under which the service should run.
  -->
  <!--
  <serviceaccount>
    <domain>YOURDOMAIN</domain>
    <user>useraccount</user>
    <password>Pa55w0rd</password>
    <allowservicelogon>true</allowservicelogon>
  </serviceaccount>
  -->
  
  <!--
    OPTION: onfailure
    Defines a sequence of actions, which should be performed if the managed executable fails.
    Supported actions: restart, reboot, none
  -->
  <!--
  <onfailure action="restart" delay="10 sec"/>
  <onfailure action="restart" delay="20 sec"/>
  <onfailure action="reboot" />
  -->
  
  <!--
    OPTION: resetfailure
    Time, after which the Windows service resets the failure status.
    Default value: 1 day
  -->
  <!--
  <resetfailure>1 hour</resetfailure>
  -->

  <!--
    OPTION: securityDescriptor
    The security descriptor string for the service in SDDL form.
    For more information, see https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/win32/secauthz/security-descriptor-definition-language.
  -->

  <!--<securityDescriptor></securityDescriptor>-->

<!--
SECTION: Executable management
-->

  <!-- 
    OPTION: arguments
    Arguments, which should be passed to the executable
  -->
  <arguments>-host 127.0.0.1</arguments>

  <!-- 
    OPTION: startarguments
    Arguments, which should be passed to the executable when it starts
    If specified, overrides 'arguments'.
  -->
  <!--
  <startarguments></startarguments>
  -->
  
  <!--
    OPTION: workingdirectory
    If specified, sets the default working directory of the executable
    Default value: Directory of the service wrapper executable.
  -->
  <!--
  <workingdirectory>C:\myApp\work</workingdirectory>
-->
  
  <!--
    OPTION: priority
    Desired process priority.
    Possible values: Normal, Idle, High, RealTime, BelowNormal, AboveNormal
    Default value: Normal
  -->
  <priority>Normal</priority>
  
  <!-- 
    OPTION: stoptimeout
    Time to wait for the service to gracefully shutdown the executable before we forcibly kill it
    Default value: 15 seconds
  -->
  <stoptimeout>15 sec</stoptimeout>
    
  <!--
    OPTION: stopparentprocessfirst
    If set, WinSW will terminate the parent process before stopping the children.
    Default value: true
  -->
  <stopparentprocessfirst>true</stopparentprocessfirst>
  
  
  <!-- 
    OPTION: stopexecutable
    Path to an optional executable, which performs shutdown of the service.
    This executable will be used if and only if 'stoparguments' are specified.
    If 'stoparguments' are defined without this option, 'executable' will be used as a stop executable
  -->
  <!--
  <stopexecutable>%BASE%\stop.exe</stopexecutable>
  -->

  <!-- 
    OPTION: stoparguments
    Additional arguments, which should be passed to the stop executable during termination.
    This OPTION also enables termination of the executable via stop executable
  -->
  <!--
  <stoparguments>-stop true</stoparguments>
  -->
<!-- 
SECTION: Service management 
-->
    <!--
      OPTION: startmode
      Defines start mode of the service.
      Supported modes: Automatic, Manual, Boot, System (latter ones are supported for driver services only)
      Default mode: Automatic
    -->
    <startmode>Automatic</startmode>
    
    <!--
      OPTION: delayedAutoStart
      Enables the Delayed Automatic Start if 'Automatic' is specified in the 'startmode' field.
      See the WinSW documentation to get info about supported platform versions and limitations.
    -->
    <!--<delayedAutoStart/>-->
    
    <!-- 
      OPTION: depend
      Optionally specifies services that must start before this service starts.
    -->
    <depend>Eventlog</depend>
    
    <!--
      OPTION: waithint
      The estimated time required for a pending stop operation.
      Before the specified amount of time has elapsed, the service should make its next call to the SetServiceStatus function.
      Otherwise the service will be marked as non-responding
      Default value: 15 seconds
    -->
    <waithint>15 sec</waithint>
    
    <!--
      OPTION: sleeptime
      The time before the service should make its next call to the SetServiceStatus function.
      Do not wait longer than the wait hint. A good interval is one-tenth of the wait hint but not less than 1 second and not more than 10 seconds.
      Default value: 1 second
    -->
    <sleeptime>1 sec</sleeptime>
    
    <!--
      OPTION: interactive
      Indicates the service can interactwith the desktop.
    -->
    <!--
    <interactive/>
    -->
    
<!-- 
SECTION:Logging 
-->

  <!--
    OPTION: logpath
    Sets a custom logging directory for all logs being produced by the service wrapper
    Default value: Directory, which contains the executor
  -->
  <!--
    <logpath>%BASE%\logs</logpath>
  -->
  
  <!--
    OPTION: log
    Defines logging mode for logs produced by the executable.
    Supported modes:
      * append - Rust update the existing log
      * none - Do not save executable logs to the disk
      * reset - Wipe the log files on startup
      * roll - Roll logs based on size
      * roll-by-time - Roll logs based on time
      * rotate - Rotate logs based on size, (8 logs, 10MB each). This mode is deprecated, use "roll"
    Default mode: append
    
    Each mode has different settings. 
    See https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw/blob/master/doc/loggingAndErrorReporting.md for more details
  -->
  <log mode="roll-by-size-time">
    <sizeThreshold>10240</sizeThreshold>
    <keepFiles>10</keepFiles>
    <pattern>yyyyMMdd</pattern>
    <autoRollAtTime>00:00:00</autoRollAtTime>
  </log>
  
<!--
SECTION: Environment setup
-->
  <!--
    OPTION: env
    Sets or overrides environment variables.
    There may be multiple entries configured on the top level.
  -->
  <!--
  <env name="MY_TOOL_HOME" value="C:\etc\tools\myTool" />
  <env name="LM_LICENSE_FILE" value="host1;host2" />
  -->


  <!--
    OPTION: download
    List of downloads to be performed by the wrapper before starting
  -->
  <!--
  <download from="http://www.google.com/" to="%BASE%\index.html" />
  
  Download and fail the service startup on Error:
  <download from="http://www.nosuchhostexists.com/" to="%BASE%\dummy.html" failOnError="true"/>

  An example for unsecure Basic authentication because the connection is not encrypted:
  <download from="http://example.com/some.dat" to="%BASE%\some.dat"
            auth="basic" unsecureAuth=“true”
            username="aUser" password=“aPassw0rd" />

  Secure Basic authentication via HTTPS:
  <download from="https://example.com/some.dat" to="%BASE%\some.dat"
            auth="basic" username="aUser" password="aPassw0rd" />

  Secure authentication when the target server and the client are members of the same domain or 
  the server domain and the client domain belong to the same forest with a trust:
  <download from="https://example.com/some.dat" to="%BASE%\some.dat" auth="sspi" />
  -->

<!-- 
SECTION: Other options 
-->
  
  <!--
    OPTION: beeponshutdown
    Indicates the service should beep when finished on shutdown (if it's supported by OS).
  -->
  <!--
  <beeponshutdown/> 
  -->
  
<!--
SECTION: Extensions
This configuration section allows specifying custom extensions.
More info is available here: https://github.com/kohsuke/winsw/blob/master/doc/extensions/extensions.md
-->

<!--
<extensions>
  Extension 1: id values must be unique
  <extension enabled="true" id="extension1" className="winsw.Plugins.SharedDirectoryMapper.SharedDirectoryMapper">
    <mapping>
      <map enabled="false" label="N:" uncpath="\\UNC"/>
      <map enabled="false" label="M:" uncpath="\\UNC2"/>
    </mapping>
  </extension>
  ...
</extensions>
-->

</service>