Can I change the management port 8089 on only the vCenter universal forwarders?

[mvjaarsveldt]

Hi - I've seen various discussions on this topic, namely 8089 used by vCenter as well as SPLUNK's deployment server but not always being resolved.

From a server environment the vCenter ports (can't be changed) and we're considering only changing this port on the Universal Forwarder, not on the Deployment Server otherwise the whole environment needs to be adjusted. What would be the best practice process to follow changing these on the vCenter (forwarder) environment.

Note: As an alternative we're looking at Syslogs and digesting these.

Any practical experiences with users having had to perform these already?

Thanks

[gjanders]

As per change the default values you can run (for example):

splunk set  splunkd-port 9089

Alternatively you could bind the universal forwarder to a different IP/port through splunk-launch.conf or you could update web.conf through changing:

[settings]
mgmtHostPort = 127.0.0.1:9089

If you were attempting to push this via the deployment server then web.conf is an option...