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Use the Deployment Manager to change Splunk Forwarding agent passwords?

jradkowskiAAMC
Explorer

Currently, all agents installed on hosts default to 'changeme' and this credential is still used when the forwarder is in Lightweight mode. I am looking for a way to automate the update of this password using the Deployment Manager for Linux, Solaris and Windows agents.

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Simeon
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This can be answered by the commented link Justin has just posted.

Justin_Grant
Contributor
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