Thanks for this solution. it worked for me. I went ahead and made my Monitoring Console as standalone.  that fixed the issue.  ... View more

FYI - I ran into the same issue on one of my two heavy forwarders.   the issue why the  port 8000 was not accepting turned out to be an app that i had installed on the heavy forwarder. when i removed the app ( custom app )  the web port was accessible.    upon investigating the app i noticed it had index.conf and i suspect that could have caused the issue,  since that app was ment for indexer server, i deleted it from the Heavy forwarder and restarted splunk instance. the web GUI access then started working  ... View more