I found a solution. If another service is blocking port 8000, splunk uses the next free port 8001
You can find the right port by starting splunk at the commandline:
C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk.exe start
Splunk> Be an IT superhero. Go home early.
Checking prerequisites...
Checking http port [8001]: open
Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open
Checking kvstore port [8191]: open
Checking configuration... Done.
Checking critical directories... Done
Checking indexes...
Validated: _audit _blocksignature _internal _introspection _thefishbucket history logfiles_stratoserver main summary
Done
Checking filesystem compatibility... Done
Checking conf files for problems...
Done All preliminary checks passed.
Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)...
Splunkd: Starting (pid 4208) Done
,I found a solution for me: a different service is blocking port 8000 and splunk uses the next free port 8001
You can find the right port by starting splunk at the commandline:
C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk.exe start
Splunk> Be an IT superhero. Go home early.
Checking prerequisites...
Checking http port [8001]: open
Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open
Checking kvstore port [8191]: open
Checking configuration... Done.
Checking critical directories... Done
Checking indexes...
Validated: _audit _blocksignature _internal _introspection _thefishbucket history logfiles_stratoserver main summary
Done
Checking filesystem compatibility... Done
Checking conf files for problems...
Done
All preliminary checks passed.
Starting splunk server daemon (splunkd)...
Splunkd: Starting (pid 4208)
Done
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