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What are all the ports to be opened for Splunk?
Hi,
Please let me know the ports to be open for splunk setup.
1. Ports to be open ON Universal Forwarder
2. Ports to be open on Heavy Forwarder
3. Ports to be open on Indexer & Indexer Cluster & Master
4. Ports to be open on Search Head & Deployer
5. Ports to be open on Deployment Server.
Please brief me.
//Dhamodaram
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List of ports need to open
Standalone/distributed
TCP/8089, TCP/8000, TCP/8065, TCP/8191,TCP/9997
Cluster env
SHC
TCP/8081, TCP/9887, TCP/8181
Indexer cluster
TCP/8080, TCP/9887
HF-> HEC
TCP/8088
please check below link
Components and their relationship with the network - Splunk Documentation
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Re-arranging as per components
forwarders - 9997
heavy forwarders - 9997
indexers - 8089, 9997, 514, 8080
search heads - 8000, 8089 (8181 search Replication)
deployment server - 8089
deployer - 8089
license master - 8089
1433 DB Connector(to fetch data from databases to Splunk)
8088 http Event Collector
Sekar
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8000 Web (default for clients to the Splunk Search page)
8089 Management/Rest API & Distributed Search (default)
9997 Indexing Receiver( for forwarders to the Splunk indexer)
8181 Search replication
8080 Index replication
8191 KV store/replication
8088 http Event Collector
8065 Splunk App Server
514 Legacy syslog input(UDP/TCP)
1433 DB Connector(to fetch data from databases to Splunk)
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This posting should answer your questions.
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/58888/what-are-the-ports-that-i-need-to-open.html
If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
