Unable to connect

[parmatma]

When i am entering my splunk server hostname and its port number 8000. It is giving me Unable to connect.
How to solve it

[Drainy]

Before you try any of that, just check if you have port 8000 allowed through your firewall. Its the usual culprit, also check that Splunk is actually started 🙂

[paramgup · Accepted solution]

First try that your hostname is able to resolve ipaddress.
eg:- Ping SplunkServer Hostname.
If it is successfull
than try to telnet your splunkserver hostname with port 8000

If you are not able to telnet port 8000, than go to splunk server. if it is Window Server than restart the splunk services in services.msc
If it is Linux server than restart the service with (sudo 'path of your splunk' start)