https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Manually-editing-tags-conf/m-p/83733#M181997 <P>Hey all,</P> <P>If you were to manually update the tags.conf file and remove a tagging for a specific server, what is needed in order for these changes to show up on the web gui (ie. restart splunk, wait X seconds, manually reload tags.conf, etc.)</P> <P>Thanks a lot!</P> <P>@mikelanghorst- We deleted a tag from the and it still persists.</P> <P>After more testing, I noticed that while tags are immediately written to tags.conf, if I remove it once it has been written it doesn't update the website. However, if I restart splunk the changes show. I'm hoping a restart isn't required!</P> <P>Does anyone else have insight on this? It doesn't appear to be updating on search.</P> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:38:37 GMT dayrobertj 2011-09-29T20:38:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Manually-editing-tags-conf/m-p/83733#M181997 <P>Hey all,</P> <P>If you were to manually update the tags.conf file and remove a tagging for a specific server, what is needed in order for these changes to show up on the web gui (ie. restart splunk, wait X seconds, manually reload tags.conf, etc.)</P> <P>Thanks a lot!</P> <P>@mikelanghorst- We deleted a tag from the and it still persists.</P> <P>After more testing, I noticed that while tags are immediately written to tags.conf, if I remove it once it has been written it doesn't update the website. However, if I restart splunk the changes show. I'm hoping a restart isn't required!</P> <P>Does anyone else have insight on this? It doesn't appear to be updating on search.</P> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:38:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Manually-editing-tags-conf/m-p/83733#M181997 dayrobertj 2011-09-29T20:38:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Manually-editing-tags-conf/m-p/83734#M181998 <P>tags.conf is read at search time, when I add tags via the config file they are available immediately.</P> Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:45:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Manually-editing-tags-conf/m-p/83734#M181998 mikelanghorst 2011-09-29T20:45:42Z