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The following post is for Splunk administrators that are already somewhat familiar with the Splunk Deployment Server, and the deployment of configuration app packages. The scenario: As a sysadmin, no matter how much effort goes into planning and organization, there is the possibility that one day you will no longer be able to easily group your servers simply by their hostnames or IP addresses. It may be the result of an emergency change ticket...