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Recreating Old Ingestion Token

TLDR Zygimantas needed to recreate an old ingestion token. Ashish confirmed it's not possible but suggested replacing the old sled db directory which resolved the issue.

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May 09, 2023 (7 months ago)

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Zygimantas

10:20 AM

Good day, is there a way to recreate old token?

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Ashish

10:21 AM

do you mean ingestion token?

Zygimantas

10:21 AM

yes

Ashish

10:22 AM

unfortunately no

10:23

Ashish

10:23 AM

in what scenarios would one want old token to be recreated?

10:23

Ashish

10:23 AM

trying to understand usecase

Zygimantas

10:24 AM

i had to reinstall host os and old token is used in few thousands of servers 😄 yes, i can reconfig all of those with ansible

10:27

Zygimantas

10:27 AM

i might just replace new sled db directory with old one and it should work?

Ashish

10:30 AM

yes technically it should..but we didn’t try/test that

Zygimantas

10:40 AM

it works, thank you for help

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