Splunk Enterprise version 7.2 is no longer supported as of April 30, 2021. See the Splunk Software Support Policy for details. For information about upgrading to a supported version, see How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Enterprise.
For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
Enable a receiver on your single-instance Splunk Enterprise deployment
To get data from your data source into your Splunk Enterprise instance, configure a receiver and a forwarder. The receiver is your Splunk Enterprise instance. You install the forwarder on your data host to send data to the receiver.
Enable a receiver using Splunk Web
- Log into the receiver as an Admin.
- Click Settings, then Forwarding and receiving.
- For Configure receiving, click Add new.
- You can use the
netstattool to determine what ports are available on your system. Make sure that Splunk Web or splunkd is not using the port you select. - Specify the TCP port you want to make the receiving port.
- Click Save. The Splunk software begins to receive incoming data on the port you specified.
- Restart the Splunk software.
Last modified on 09 June, 2023
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10
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