Using more than one Management Port

[dantimola]

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

[ppuru]

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

[dantimola]

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.

[nickhills]

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.

[ppuru]

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

[ddrillic]

A similar question at Is it possible to configure more than one management port on the deployment server?

@somesoni2 said -

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