https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/License-for-Deployment-Server-Search-heads-and-Heavy-Forwarder/m-p/554538#M18867 <P>Hi,</P><P>Considering that the deployment server, Search Heads, Universal Forwarder and Deployers are full Splunk Enterprise Installs, how does the licensing work ?</P><P>I know that indexer licenses are based upon the data ingestion, so what are search head, Deployer, Deployment Server and Heavy Forwarder licenses based on ?&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Termcap</P> Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:59:42 GMT termcap 2021-06-04T19:59:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/License-for-Deployment-Server-Search-heads-and-Heavy-Forwarder/m-p/554538#M18867 <P>Hi,</P><P>Considering that the deployment server, Search Heads, Universal Forwarder and Deployers are full Splunk Enterprise Installs, how does the licensing work ?</P><P>I know that indexer licenses are based upon the data ingestion, so what are search head, Deployer, Deployment Server and Heavy Forwarder licenses based on ?&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Termcap</P> Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:59:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/License-for-Deployment-Server-Search-heads-and-Heavy-Forwarder/m-p/554538#M18867 termcap 2021-06-04T19:59:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/License-for-Deployment-Server-Search-heads-and-Heavy-Forwarder/m-p/554540#M18869 <P>All those are used only feature part of license not ingesting part. You should use central license server to share license to all of your splunk enterprise nodes.</P><P>You could found more here:&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.2.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses</A></P><P><BR />r. Ismo</P> Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:04:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Deployment-Architecture/License-for-Deployment-Server-Search-heads-and-Heavy-Forwarder/m-p/554540#M18869 isoutamo 2021-06-04T20:04:51Z