Hi.
I'm wondering if I'm missing something here, but it seems like I can't manage a server that has more than one Splunk instance on it using the Distributed Management Console (Splunk 6.4+).
I noticed that I needed to have a different serverName set via server.conf in order to be able to add it as a search peer on my DMC. So same hostname, but different instance name and, of course, different management port. When I go to the DMC Setup page to turn on monitoring on my second instance and then hit Apply, I get
You have some unresolved errors that need to be fixed before you can proceed. Check the problems column and expand for more detail.
and then under the specific hosts (both entries with the same hostname but different instance names show this):
Duplicate instance name. Ensure each instance has a unique instance (host) name.
I don't see a way around this and it's kind of a bummer to not be able to see some of my deployment servers' status in the DMC. It's frustrating that I've done what was needed to make Splunk accept the second instance as a search peer, but the DMC wants more than that.
Thanks
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