Enable receiving on Splunk for use with Universal Forwarder

[xcalibur]

Hey,

I'm missing something rather basic here. If Splunk is set by default to listen on port 8089, why when running the Universal Forwarder installation is the receiving end's default port set to 9997?
If someone wouldnt mind explaining to me in detail how to "switch" to that port I'd highly appreciate it.

Thanks,
Gil

[martin_mueller · Accepted solution]

8089 is the default management port, which is different from a receiving port.

The receiving is set here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/inputsconf
Look for the tcp:// stanza.

The management port is set here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/serverconf
See the mgmtHostPort key.