topic Re: What is the difference between Cluster master and License master in a distributed Environment? in Deployment Architecture https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-difference-between-Cluster-master-and-License-master/m-p/270707#M10309 <P>Are you asking for the basic conceptual differences? One has nothing to do with the other. A license master governs a license pool. A cluster master manages a cluster of indexers that indexes multiple copies of your data.</P> <P>See <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Admin/HowSplunklicensingworks">How Splunk licensing works</A> in the <EM>Admin Manual</EM></P> <P>and</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Indexer/Basicclusterarchitecture">The basics of indexer cluster architecture</A> in <EM>Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers</EM>.</P> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:29:07 GMT ChrisG 2016-09-08T23:29:07Z What is the difference between Cluster master and License master in a distributed Environment? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-difference-between-Cluster-master-and-License-master/m-p/270706#M10308 <P>What is the difference between Cluster master and License master in a distributed Environment?</P> <P>Any major differences and detailed explanation of both would be great.</P> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:09:58 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-difference-between-Cluster-master-and-License-master/m-p/270706#M10308 pavanae 2016-09-08T23:09:58Z Re: What is the difference between Cluster master and License master in a distributed Environment? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-difference-between-Cluster-master-and-License-master/m-p/270707#M10309 <P>Are you asking for the basic conceptual differences? One has nothing to do with the other. A license master governs a license pool. A cluster master manages a cluster of indexers that indexes multiple copies of your data.</P> <P>See <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Admin/HowSplunklicensingworks">How Splunk licensing works</A> in the <EM>Admin Manual</EM></P> <P>and</P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/Indexer/Basicclusterarchitecture">The basics of indexer cluster architecture</A> in <EM>Managing Indexers and Clusters of Indexers</EM>.</P> Thu, 08 Sep 2016 23:29:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/What-is-the-difference-between-Cluster-master-and-License-master/m-p/270707#M10309 ChrisG 2016-09-08T23:29:07Z