https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Forwarder-Certificate-Re-creation/m-p/172667#M5112 <P>Hello Admins,</P> <P>related to my earlier question, which went unanswered <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span><BR /> <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/232151/the-subject-common-name-cn-found-in-the-x509-cert.html">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/232151/the-subject-common-name-cn-found-in-the-x509-cert.html</A></P> <P>i've deleted the server.pem and have restarted the SplunkForwarder service and it has been re-generated with the same CN = SplunkServerDefaultCert. I would like this to be the Hostname of the server in which it runs instead of the Default.</P> <P>can you please throw some light on what steps the re-start service would do and how it re-generates the certificate?</P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Venu</P> Wed, 06 May 2015 10:57:56 GMT SandzVG 2015-05-06T10:57:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Forwarder-Certificate-Re-creation/m-p/172667#M5112 <P>Hello Admins,</P> <P>related to my earlier question, which went unanswered <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":disappointed_face:">😞</span><BR /> <A href="http://answers.splunk.com/answers/232151/the-subject-common-name-cn-found-in-the-x509-cert.html">http://answers.splunk.com/answers/232151/the-subject-common-name-cn-found-in-the-x509-cert.html</A></P> <P>i've deleted the server.pem and have restarted the SplunkForwarder service and it has been re-generated with the same CN = SplunkServerDefaultCert. I would like this to be the Hostname of the server in which it runs instead of the Default.</P> <P>can you please throw some light on what steps the re-start service would do and how it re-generates the certificate?</P> <P>Thanks</P> <P>Venu</P> Wed, 06 May 2015 10:57:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Forwarder-Certificate-Re-creation/m-p/172667#M5112 SandzVG 2015-05-06T10:57:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Forwarder-Certificate-Re-creation/m-p/172668#M5113 <P>You need to make your own certificates with another CA if you want to use custom CN etc information. That is the default Splunk SSL certificate. These slides might help. <A href="http://www.georgestarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Nashville-UG-Splunk-SSL-Presentation.pdf">http://www.georgestarcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Nashville-UG-Splunk-SSL-Presentation.pdf</A></P> Thu, 07 May 2015 02:09:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Splunk-Forwarder-Certificate-Re-creation/m-p/172668#M5113 starcher 2015-05-07T02:09:33Z