https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Splunk-DB-Connect-Connection-To-SQL/m-p/500925#M195103 <P>My DB connect app is hosted on the Splunk Heavy forwarder and i need to create a connection to SQL server. I got the server address and the port number is 1433. I need to request firewall access to from my HF to the db server over port 1433. Do i need to provide the any port number from my HF so the Firewall can be opened to communicate ?</P> <P>Or i just need to give my HF IP address to the firewall team to open connection to db server ip with port 1433 ?</P> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:27:24 GMT Prakash493 2020-02-04T22:27:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Splunk-DB-Connect-Connection-To-SQL/m-p/500925#M195103 <P>My DB connect app is hosted on the Splunk Heavy forwarder and i need to create a connection to SQL server. I got the server address and the port number is 1433. I need to request firewall access to from my HF to the db server over port 1433. Do i need to provide the any port number from my HF so the Firewall can be opened to communicate ?</P> <P>Or i just need to give my HF IP address to the firewall team to open connection to db server ip with port 1433 ?</P> Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:27:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Splunk-DB-Connect-Connection-To-SQL/m-p/500925#M195103 Prakash493 2020-02-04T22:27:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Splunk-DB-Connect-Connection-To-SQL/m-p/500926#M195104 <P>For that communication you only need to be sure to open that port for both INPUT and OUTPUT, on both the DB node and your dbconnect node.</P> Thu, 06 Feb 2020 22:21:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Splunk-DB-Connect-Connection-To-SQL/m-p/500926#M195104 codebuilder 2020-02-06T22:21:54Z