topic Re: Does HEC have to run on 8088? Could it also run on 9997 port? in Deployment Architecture

Does HEC have to run on 8088? Could it also run on 9997 port?

Splunker2911 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:07:33 GMT

We are planning to implement HEC on our Splunk setup, we are looking to see if HEC works on 9997 or should it only use 8088 port.

We already have UFs using 9997 port

Re: Does HEC have to run on 8088? Could it also run on 9997 port?

nickhills — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:02:15 GMT

You can run HEC on any port but obviously, it cant be a port in use elsewhere on the same host.

Re: Does HEC have to run on 8088? Could it also run on 9997 port?

tiagofbmm — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:10:13 GMT

You can run it on whatever port you can:

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.4/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector#HEC_and_self-service_Splunk_Cloud

Re: Does HEC have to run on 8088? Could it also run on 9997 port?

starcher — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:25:19 GMT

As the others mention. You can change the port. However. You mention forwarder. They do not talk HEC. The talk splunk2splunk protocol. So running HEC on 9997 will not work to receive UF data.