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How do I configure firewall when forwarding from on-premise to Cloud?

panderla
Loves-to-Learn Lots

I am building firewall policies to implement an on-premise Splunk Enterprise system and need to forward some data to a Splunk Cloud instance.

What communication ports are used?

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mattymo
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi Panderla,

There is an excellent answer available here:

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/153990/what-security-settings-do-i-need-to-setup-for-splunk-cloud...

In short, you need to allow your TCP port 9997 to the cloud indexers, which you can find/resolve from the splunk_forwarder_app in outputs.conf

- MattyMo
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