Getting Data In

Why am I unable to add UDP port 162 as a data source?

rgrace110
New Member

When I try to add port 162 UDP I cannot add it. I uninstalled Splunk, rebooted and reinstalled with no luck. Netstat -a shows Splunk listening but I cannot get data as it will not allow me to add the data source. Help please.

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Are you running as root? You have to be running as root to listen on a port below 1024. See this topic in the Getting Data In manual.

rgrace110
New Member

How can I verify that. The user is a domain admin and should.

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rgrace110
New Member

I am doing this simply from the Windows interfaces

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ChrisG
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Okay, just to confirm, then: does the user you are running Splunk Enterprise as have access to port 162?

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