After my certificates expired and I followed the steps in documentation for getting third party certificates, why is splunkd not starting?

[apentaros]

My certificates expired recently and I did the procedures in this article :

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.2.2/Security/Howtogetthird-partycertificates#Next_step... .

All the steps were successful and I manage to combine the requested files into one. I place it under Splunk_home\etc\auth\mycerts\ and restart splunk.

Splunkweb is starting fine but splunkd is not. Can you advise me what I did wrong and how I can get this working? I am new to Splunk as I got the server from another colleague that resigned.

[NOUMSSI]

Hi,

Make sure that there is no application installed on your system that use the port 8089.
Restart splunkd with cmt if you are on windows or with terminal if you are on linux

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My server is on Windows 2012 64-bit. I did one netstat -a to list all ports that are used. strangely I don't see the port 8089 to be used not by Splunk nor by other device!