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How to receive data from forwarders in the trial version of Splunk installed on my personal laptop?

xbbj3nj
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How to receive data from forwarders in a Splunk trial/free version instance installed on my personal laptop?

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hunters_splunk
Splunk Employee
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Hi xbbj3nj,

On your laptop Splunk instance, enable listening on a specific port (default 9997) in one of the following ways:

  • Run this command line in the command console:

    splunk enable listen 9997

  • In Splunk Web, select Settinigs > Forwarding and Receiving from the menu, then click Configure Receiving and add a new listening port - 9997.

Then on your forwarder, run the following command to forward data to your receiving instance and port:

splunk add forward-server <your_laptop_ip>:9997 

For more detailed information, please refer to documentation:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata

Hope this helps. Thanks!
Hunter

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hunters_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi xbbj3nj,

On your laptop Splunk instance, enable listening on a specific port (default 9997) in one of the following ways:

  • Run this command line in the command console:

    splunk enable listen 9997

  • In Splunk Web, select Settinigs > Forwarding and Receiving from the menu, then click Configure Receiving and add a new listening port - 9997.

Then on your forwarder, run the following command to forward data to your receiving instance and port:

splunk add forward-server <your_laptop_ip>:9997 

For more detailed information, please refer to documentation:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.1/Forwarding/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata

Hope this helps. Thanks!
Hunter

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