topic Re: hostname override in Getting Data In

hostname override

lisaac — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:55:12 GMT

I have a file that is being auto sourcetyped as syslog, and the file is read by a splunk agent. An example follows:

Oct 9 04:06:58 be1 recurrenceengine[14027]: _ [OK]|20111009040658|{xxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx}|Recurrence Engine loop complete.

This is fine, but the hostname is being set as be1. I would like the hostname to assume the name of the current splunkforwarder hostname. Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this item?

Re: hostname override

kdenton — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:16:48 GMT

How is the data being sent to splunk?

Syslog - Port 514 or Splunk forwarder

Re: hostname override

lisaac — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:46:03 GMT

The data is being send to the Indexer via a Splunk forwarder. The forwarder is reading a local file.

Re: hostname override

kristian_kolb — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:06:18 GMT

I believe that this is the default behaviour for the syslog sourcetype. If the sourcetype is set to syslog, the forwarder will look inside each event to find and set the host value.

Rather than changing the behaviour of splunk, it is probably easier to change your sourcetype to zyzlog or some other arbitrary name. Then the host value set in the forwarder's inputs.conf will be used, if set.

hth,

Kristian