topic Re: What uses the management port? in Getting Data In

What uses the management port?

matt — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:12:02 GMT

Under what circumstances does the splunkd service need to be accesable by anyone/thing besides the http server?

Re: What uses the management port?

V_at_Splunk — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:45:24 GMT

Unless I'm sorely mistaken, CLI communicates with splunkd via the mgmt port.

Re: What uses the management port?

jrodman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:34:32 GMT

The management port is used by all things that need to communicate TO the splunkd, excepting forwarders.

Essentially the management port is a request-response model communication path, implemented as REST over HTTP (historically SOAP was used in older products). Thus anything that is a request with a result occurs over the management port. Forwarding is a continuous stream and has its own protocol.

Things that will have to access the httpd.

the Splunk command line for most commands
SplunkWeb
distributed search
The summary backfill script (which invokes the splunk commandline)
any REST clients of your own creation
In splunk 3.x, the scheduled search launcher

Re: What uses the management port?

benstraw — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:36:17 GMT

yes, the CLI communicates with splunkd via the management port.

Re: What uses the management port?

Jag — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:35:14 GMT

Used by deployment clients as well. This is is specified in deploymentclient.conf with attribute 'targetUri'.

Re: What uses the management port?

arunsundaram — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:55:29 GMT

management port is required for internal communication primarily between the splunk instances in short
We can change this if we require by editing the configuration files.
several other ports are 8000 web port 9997 - incoming port 8080 - replication port