Getting Data In

Whitelisting/Allow list for IP for HEC ingestion

Timaaj
New Member

I tried to whitelist an ip address for HEC log ingestion and got the error message

"Subnet overlaps Private IP block"

 

Does anyone know what this means?

Thanks

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bowesmana
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You are probably entering private IPs - or see this for Splunk's private IPs

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Config/ACSerrormessages

 

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