topic Re: Change client hostname in the Forwarder Management in Knowledge Management

How to change client hostname in the forwarder management?

splunk_luis12 — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:57:15 GMT

Hi folks,

Does anybody knows how to change the hostname of the clients that appear in the forwarder management of the Deployment server?

I tried with:

Server.conf

[general]
serverName = <ASCII string>
* The name that identifies this Splunk software instance for features such as
  distributed search.

Inputs.conf

host = <string>
* Sets the host key/field to a static value for this stanza.
* Primarily used to control the host field, which will be used for events coming in
  via this input stanza.

But changing those settings in the Universal forwarders does not change the client hostname in the Deployment server (forwarder management).

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Re: Change client hostname in the Forwarder Management

SanjayReddy — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:54:26 GMT

Hi @splunk_luis12

can you try with
clientName = <clientname> in deploymentclient.conf

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Regards,
Sanjay Reddy

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Re: Change client hostname in the Forwarder Management

splunk_luis12 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:23:16 GMT

@SanjayReddy it changes the Client name but not the Hostname in the Forwarder Management.