Should each device sending data have a different UDP input port?

[julianosantos]

Hello!
I'm new and this is my first post here in the community.

I did the Splunk installation with the purpose of testing for enterprise deployment.
We have several devices like Palo Alto, Juniper, Trend Micro and etc.
My question is as follows.
I created a UDP Input Data on port 514 for my Palo Alto device. I noticed that others also work on the same door.
When creating a new UDP Input Data with the same port, but with different source type, I can not.
Does each device have to be configured on a different port?
What is the recommendation? Following for each device a different port?

Thank you,

[woodcock]

Use a different port for each device. You can use an IP filter in most syslog servers but it means that you have to constantly update this which is a MAJOR hassle. Also read this:

http://www.georgestarcher.com/splunk-success-with-syslog/

[MuS · Accepted solution]

Hi julianosantos,

Welcome to Splunk 🙂

To keep it simple: I would use a different port for each device. This way you can configure the sourcetypes in the Splunk UI.

If some devices cannot send data to other ports than 514 you can use this approach https://answers.splunk.com/answers/438083/how-to-change-syslog-host-to-a-specific-sourcetype-1.html or this one https://answers.splunk.com/answers/369375/how-do-i-set-different-source-types-on-one-data-in-1.html

Hope this helps ...

cheers, MuS