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How to get Splunk universal forwarder GUID from cmd?

robduk1
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Good morning all,

Does anyone know how to get the splunk universal forwarder GUID from cmd on a windows 10 machine?

Many thanks

Rob

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Mdkoli
New Member

@robduk1 

Use below commmand to get GUID

cat /opt/splunk/etc/instance.cfg

Output will be somehting like,

[general]
guid = 383587E7-7339-4BA7-944B-86993A2E21C6

 

 

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adonio
Ultra Champion

like this?

$SPLUNK_HOME\etc\more instance.cfg

output will be something like this:

[general]
guid = ASAFGLF-ASDADFF-ASFSFSGSG-ADAFFAAF
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