We are configuring SAML Authentication in splunk. We set up everything but splunk sends an SAMLRequest starting with trailing number because the hostname of the system is  1ourhostname.  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <samlp:AuthnRequest ID="1ourhostname..1.6E4A85A3-6AC1-4CC3-A9  The id Provider rejects the request because an id starting with numbers is incorrect. What i tried set fqdn to  the web url  in both server.conf general  and in the saml secttion in authentication.conf . That does not change the saml request. Any ideas? authentication.conf:  [saml] fqdn = splunk-test.system.local server.conf:  [general] serverName=splunk-test.system.local fqdn = splunk-test.system.local   ... View more