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Is it possible in inputs.conf in windows machine to use

host=$

I tried using:
host=$computername

but in the indexer the events show 'host=$computername' and not the value of $computername

host = $COMPUTERNAME worked for me on the Windows Splunk 5.0.4 Universal Forwarder.

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