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renaming hosts (machine-agent config change)

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Splunk Employee

We have a lot of handrolled machine agent configurations and we'd like to bring them under configuration management,

using a standard XML template to generate controller-info.xml.

It looks like I may need to rename some servers  (i.e. change the node-name element) to be able to do this,

and I assume this will appear as a new server to the controller dashboards etc.

Is there a way to migrate the historical data to the new node-name ?

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