Solved: How to get host name in syslog

kml_uvce · ‎10-30-2012

I am sending data from forwarder to indexer to Heavy forwarder to syslog,
in sylog I am getting Heavy forwarder host name , How i can get forwarder host name in syslog.

kamal singh bisht

Ayn · ‎10-31-2012

As far as I know you cannot. Light/Universal forwarders do not perform any transformation of the data, it just sends it as-is.

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Ayn · ‎10-31-2012

As far as I know you cannot. Light/Universal forwarders do not perform any transformation of the data, it just sends it as-is.

How to get host name in syslog

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