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Is it possible to configure an app in Splunk to overwrite the hostname in logs sent from a universal forwarder?

Hi all, New to Splunk here. I have configured 100 servers to send syslog data. I did this by using puppet to install the universal forwarder, and set a deployment server address to my Splunk server, then in Splunk, I built an app to send syslog data back (using inputs.conf and outputs.conf). The app gets deployed. I now have syslog data in my Splunk install! However, given some history on some of these servers, I am getting multiple hostnames per server. (mostly abc and abc.domain.com) Can I configure Splunk to overwrite the hostname from the logs? In inputs.conf I tried to add host= However that did not seem to work.

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