topic SplunkForwarder RPM Installer - Hostname determination in Getting Data In

SplunkForwarder RPM Installer - Hostname determination

BP9906 — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:24:54 GMT

We added SplunkForwarder RPM with a script to install the agent on all our Redhat kickstarts. The problem is that the hostname is set during kickstart but when the Splunk script runs the way it obtains the server hostname is labeling it the default "localhost". If I run the script manually after the kickstart, it installs fine with the properly registered hostname.

How does the RPM determine the hostname at installation?

Re: SplunkForwarder RPM Installer - Hostname determination

jmantor — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:57:19 GMT

rpm -scripts -qp ./splunkforwarder-6.2.2-255606-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm | more

shows the scripts in the rpm.

It gets the host name with this line :

HOSTNAME='hostname'

Re: SplunkForwarder RPM Installer - Hostname determination

BP9906 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:51:44 GMT

thanks. Our kickstart file for redhat confirms it, thanks.