https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-receive-data-from-forwarders-in-the-trial-version-of/m-p/245789#M47501 <P>Hi xbbj3nj, </P> <P>On your laptop Splunk instance, enable listening on a specific port (default 9997) in one of the following ways: </P> <UL> <LI><P>Run this command line in the command console: </P> <P>splunk enable listen 9997 </P></LI> <LI><P>In Splunk Web, select Settinigs &gt; Forwarding and Receiving from the menu, then click Configure Receiving and add a new listening port - 9997. </P></LI> </UL> <P>Then on your forwarder, run the following command to forward data to your receiving instance and port: </P> <PRE><CODE>splunk add forward-server &lt;your_laptop_ip&gt;:9997 </CODE></PRE> <P>For more detailed information, please refer to documentation: <BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata</A></P> <P>Hope this helps. Thanks! <BR /> Hunter</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:40:03 GMT hunters_splunk 2017-01-23T07:40:03Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-receive-data-from-forwarders-in-the-trial-version-of/m-p/245788#M47500 <P>How to receive data from forwarders in a Splunk trial/free version instance installed on my personal laptop?</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:07:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-receive-data-from-forwarders-in-the-trial-version-of/m-p/245788#M47500 xbbj3nj 2017-01-23T06:07:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-receive-data-from-forwarders-in-the-trial-version-of/m-p/245789#M47501 <P>Hi xbbj3nj, </P> <P>On your laptop Splunk instance, enable listening on a specific port (default 9997) in one of the following ways: </P> <UL> <LI><P>Run this command line in the command console: </P> <P>splunk enable listen 9997 </P></LI> <LI><P>In Splunk Web, select Settinigs &gt; Forwarding and Receiving from the menu, then click Configure Receiving and add a new listening port - 9997. </P></LI> </UL> <P>Then on your forwarder, run the following command to forward data to your receiving instance and port: </P> <PRE><CODE>splunk add forward-server &lt;your_laptop_ip&gt;:9997 </CODE></PRE> <P>For more detailed information, please refer to documentation: <BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata</A></P> <P>Hope this helps. Thanks! <BR /> Hunter</P> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 07:40:03 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-receive-data-from-forwarders-in-the-trial-version-of/m-p/245789#M47501 hunters_splunk 2017-01-23T07:40:03Z