Getting Data In

Get data from forward TCP and UDP ports

king311
Loves-to-Learn

Not getting data ofter configuring TCP 80 port in inputs.conf

my stanza is like this

[tcp://80]
connection_host = dns
index = port
sourcetype = syslog

can you give me any idea on this. thnks in advance.

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

If you are using port less or equal than 1024 then you must run splunkd as root, which is not as best practices. I prefer to use e.g. port 1514 or similar for that. 

Have you update also your senders to use that unstandardised port (normally udp + 514) to use?

r. Ismo

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