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Where does host come from in the Universal Forwarder?

vbumgarner
Contributor

With previous Splunk installations, at install time, the hostname was written to etc/system/local/inputs.conf. That doesn't appear to be created by the Universal Forwarder.

Where does the hostname come from with the Universal Forwarder?

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

It is set when the forwarder starts by executing the hostname command. In previous versions, the same command was run on first-time run of Splunk, and the result written into the inputs.conf file.

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