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Some forwarders as displayed in forwarder management have a blank Instance Name? How to fix?

radam2000 — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:09:19 GMT

Some forwarders as displayed in forwarder management have a blank Instance Name? How to fix?
we have 268 forwarders clients installed and about 8 have no Instance Name displayed?

Also - what is the query to display the forwarders with the instance name as i can''t actually export the list with instance name
I have successfully exported from the monitoring console forwarder management queries but none of these display instance name. I tried to add the field in the query but it doesn't seem to exist

Re: Some forwarders as displayed in forwarder management have a blank Instance Name? How to fix?

dkeck — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:31:13 GMT

Hi,

try these two answers for help :

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/106684/blank-forwarder-management-page-on-splunk-6.html

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/171928/how-can-i-control-the-clients-host-name-that-appea.html

Kind Regards

Re: Some forwarders as displayed in forwarder management have a blank Instance Name? How to fix?

dkeck — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 06:36:51 GMT

If it helped please accept this answer 🙂 thank you