https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Server-conf-serverName-variables/m-p/81191#M2906 <P>You are on the right track with $, just use $ with the Windows environment variable.</P> <PRE><CODE> [general] serverName=$COMPUTERNAME </CODE></PRE> Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:17:58 GMT andrewcg 2015-06-26T21:17:58Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Server-conf-serverName-variables/m-p/81190#M2905 <P>I am trying to develop a standardized version of server.conf to deploy to all my forwarders.</P> <P>In a <STRONG>Windows environment</STRONG> I am using the following:</P> <PRE><CODE>serverName = $HOSTNAME </CODE></PRE> <P>I tried using %COMPUTERNAME% but Splunk displayed an error when using %s. Fortunatly there was no errors when using a *nix variable. Where can I verify that the value for serverName is being interpreted correctly?</P> Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:12:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Server-conf-serverName-variables/m-p/81190#M2905 agodoy 2013-07-01T21:12:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Server-conf-serverName-variables/m-p/81191#M2906 <P>You are on the right track with $, just use $ with the Windows environment variable.</P> <PRE><CODE> [general] serverName=$COMPUTERNAME </CODE></PRE> Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:17:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Server-conf-serverName-variables/m-p/81191#M2906 andrewcg 2015-06-26T21:17:58Z