Knowledge Management

How to change client hostname in the forwarder management?

splunk_luis12
Path Finder

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!

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SanjayReddy
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @splunk_luis12 

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

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Regards,
Sanjay Reddy

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splunk_luis12
Path Finder

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

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