https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304830#M57464 <P>I think you should ask a linux admin for help</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:26:39 GMT jkat54 2017-02-15T19:26:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304826#M57460 <P>I need to change the host name in inputs.conf in Linux, can anyone tell me the Linux commands I need? Also, are there instructions for making the changes using the deployment servers ?</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:52:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304826#M57460 vxl65703 2017-02-15T15:52:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304827#M57461 <P>Assuming you want to change the host=______ in an existing inputs.conf on a linux system:</P> <P>First try this because you're probably best suited for nano if youre a windows guy</P> <P>cd /opt/splunkforwarder/etc/inputsApp/default/<BR /> nano inputs.conf</P> <H1>make your edits then press ctrl+o to write Out the edits, and ctrl+x to eXit the nano editor</H1> <H1>if nano doesnt work, you'll have to use vi/vim</H1> <P>vi inputs.conf</P> <H1>go to the host= line, press i for insert, make your changes, press escape to exit insert mode, type :wq and press enter ( : opens a context/command line interface at bottom of vi, w is for write, q is for quit)</H1> <P>All this assumes inputs.conf is in that directory "/opt/splunkforwarder/etc/inputsApp/default/"... yours will most definitely be somewhere else.</P> <P>now restart splunk to reload the inputs.conf:<BR /> /opt/splunkforwarder/bin/splunk restart</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:36:35 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304827#M57461 jkat54 2017-02-15T17:36:35Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304828#M57462 <P>Willl this work using Putty or SSH ?</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:18:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304828#M57462 vxl65703 2017-02-15T19:18:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304829#M57463 <P>Using putty to ssh, yes.</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:25:30 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304829#M57463 jkat54 2017-02-15T19:25:30Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304830#M57464 <P>I think you should ask a linux admin for help</P> Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:26:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-change-the-host-name-in-inputs-conf-on-Linux/m-p/304830#M57464 jkat54 2017-02-15T19:26:39Z