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what happens with Duplicate GUID's

kteng2024
Path Finder
‎02-08-2017 10:00 PM

hi,

I want know what happens if hosts have duplicate GUID's because i my environment , i have 100 forwarders having the same GUID.

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rbal_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
‎02-09-2017 10:33 AM

I can't comment on real impact, but I can provide you suggestion to fix it.

The GUID is stored in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/instance.cfg, and if you remove this file and restart a new GUID will be created

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