topic Re: Using more than one Management Port in Deployment Architecture

Using more than one Management Port

dantimola — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:48:56 GMT

Hi Splunkers,

Just want to ask if is it possible to use multiple Management port? Just wondering because I've encountered a scenario that port 8089 is not available and the process that using the port is not advisable to kill.

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Using more than one Management Port

ddrillic — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:05:30 GMT

@somesoni2 said -

-- A Splunk instance can have only one management port and one splunk web port.

Re: Using more than one Management Port

ppuru — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 12:51:30 GMT

Hi,

Management port 8089 is used to communicate with Splunk's Splunkd deamon process. It is possible to change Splunk's management port to something else that's available, if default 8089 is used by some other apps/service.

You can do that in two different ways
1. via web interface. under settings.
2. via command line splunk set splunkd-port 2029

Re: Using more than one Management Port

dantimola — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 02:33:01 GMT

Thank you for the answer, however, I'm asking if its possible for splunk to use more than one management port, for example, I'm using management port 8089 and I want to add another management port 8090.

Re: Using more than one Management Port

ppuru — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:47:31 GMT

Got it. In that case, as far as I understand, a Splunk instance can only have 1 mgmt port.

Re: Using more than one Management Port

nickhills — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:37:36 GMT

I dont follow what your asking.

You have something already running on 8089 which you can not kill. - Is that process Splunk?
You can run two separate splunk processes on the same box, (although i doubt its a 'supported' configuration), and each one can use a different port, but I cant quite get my head round what you are trying to achieve.