Not able to start kafka with .\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties cmd

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I have preconfigured zookeeper and kafka and after making all the changes when i execute below command in cmd prompt .\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

following error is thrown 'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Do suggest for this .
For steps kafka preconfiguration used fowwloing link : https://dzone.com/articles/running-apache-kafka-on-windows-os

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apache-kafkawmic
wmic is in the System32 folder (C:\windows\system32\wbem) . Can you check if it is added to your PATH variable? PATH=C:\Windows\System32\wbem;etc... – xvf
Yes its already added but still didn't worked. – Anoop

2 Answers

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I had similar issue. I added C:\Windows\System32\wbem to path.

Now I am not getting the same error but no logs are getting printed after starting kafka-server.

Kafka server not returning anything

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This is because WMIC internally runs other OS commands. For this C:\Windows\System32 must be set in Classpath. If this is missing, nothing gets displayed when starting Kafka server.