No, your questions are valid, thanks for trying to understand.
I just dont want Splunk to use the hostname when referring to the deployment client. I want the DNS name or another value I specify to be the name Splunk recognizes for deployment-client name.
When I look at the ~splunk/etc/system/local/server.conf, There is no guid = attribute in the file, and I am not adding it manually.
If I change the serverName = attribute to either the dnsname I want, or the value I want, then restart, it still gets picked up and listed by the deployment server using the hostname.
-Thanks
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