I am facing similar issue these days with many Servers as Splunk forwarder was installed on Template Server . I was not able to find guid in server.conf however there is surely an instance.cfg . What do you all recommend . Should I try below command OR just remove the instance.cfg file .However those cloned serves are getting wrong host name as well so I need to remove two things . $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk clone-prep-clear-config   ... View more