https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Difference-between-show-default-hostname-and-show-servername/m-p/92115#M19136 <UL> <LI><STRONG>servername</STRONG> is used to identify the Splunk instance for features such as distributed search and defaults to &lt;hostname&gt;-&lt;user running splunk&gt;. You set this in server.conf.</LI> <LI><STRONG>default-hostname</STRONG> is used as default "host" field on all events coming from that Splunk instance. You set this in inputs.conf.</LI> </UL> Mon, 09 May 2011 10:52:02 GMT Paolo_Prigione 2011-05-09T10:52:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Difference-between-show-default-hostname-and-show-servername/m-p/92114#M19135 <P>When running these two commands on a host I get different values. What (if any) is the difference between the two?</P> <PRE><CODE># /opt/splunk/bin/splunk show default-hostname Default hostname for data inputs: sapi09. # /opt/splunk/bin/splunk show servername Server name: sapi09.mydomain.com-$USER </CODE></PRE> Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:40:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Difference-between-show-default-hostname-and-show-servername/m-p/92114#M19135 nocostk 2011-04-29T15:40:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Difference-between-show-default-hostname-and-show-servername/m-p/92115#M19136 <UL> <LI><STRONG>servername</STRONG> is used to identify the Splunk instance for features such as distributed search and defaults to &lt;hostname&gt;-&lt;user running splunk&gt;. You set this in server.conf.</LI> <LI><STRONG>default-hostname</STRONG> is used as default "host" field on all events coming from that Splunk instance. You set this in inputs.conf.</LI> </UL> Mon, 09 May 2011 10:52:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Difference-between-show-default-hostname-and-show-servername/m-p/92115#M19136 Paolo_Prigione 2011-05-09T10:52:02Z