https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410163#M14727 <P>Hello,</P> <P>I have weird question here, the license master is not down but sometimes we are getting an error saying the indexers cannot contact the license master because max thread limit for REST HTTP server(license master) already in use. So in this case the ingestion and searching get effected or not. Please let me know.</P> <P>Thanks.</P> Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:18:34 GMT sathwikr076 2019-10-11T16:18:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410159#M14723 <P>Hi everyone,</P> <P>According to the latest documentation:<BR /> <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses</A></P> <P>All new Splunk licenses are no-enforcement licenses (as of Splunk 6.5). However, as far as I can tell this no-enforcement policy doesn't exist if the License Server is down. If this server is down for 72 hours, search is no longer available.</P> <P>Is this correct? If so, why is the no-enforcement policy true for licensing violations but not for a server being inaccessible?</P> <P>Thanks!</P> Tue, 30 Jul 2019 09:20:57 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410159#M14723 perditi0nspam 2019-07-30T09:20:57Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410160#M14724 <P>Just a guess, but without a license master Splunk doesn't know if you have a no-enforcement license or not. The no-enforcement indication is in the license, not the code.</P> Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:45:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410160#M14724 richgalloway 2019-07-30T12:45:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410161#M14725 <P>As @richgalloway mentioned, the no-enforcement clause is specified in the license file. If the license master goes down, and splunk isn't able to validate that a license <EM>exists</EM>, it'll assume you have no license (or only a free/trial license).</P> Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:44:36 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410161#M14725 jluo_splunk 2019-07-30T14:44:36Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410162#M14726 <P>Awesome, thanks!</P> Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:06:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410162#M14726 perditi0nspam 2019-07-30T15:06:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410163#M14727 <P>Hello,</P> <P>I have weird question here, the license master is not down but sometimes we are getting an error saying the indexers cannot contact the license master because max thread limit for REST HTTP server(license master) already in use. So in this case the ingestion and searching get effected or not. Please let me know.</P> <P>Thanks.</P> Fri, 11 Oct 2019 16:18:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/Splunk-7-3-Does-an-unavailable-License-Master-still-mean-no/m-p/410163#M14727 sathwikr076 2019-10-11T16:18:34Z