topic Re: Moving licenses in Deployment Architecture

Moving licenses

timmy13 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:28:38 GMT

We have two splunk environments. One is running 4.1.2, using the old licensing method. The newer environment is 4.3. We are shutting down the old environment. How do I go about moving the licenses?

Thanks

Re: Moving licenses

piebob — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:35:05 GMT

licensing changed a lot starting in 4.2, so i recommend reviewing the documentation about it before proceeding:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/HowSplunklicensingworks

assuming your 4.1.x licenses are still valid, you should be able to designate one of your Splunk instances as the license master:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Configurealicensemaster
and just install your existing licenses on it for use by your pool of indexers.

Re: Moving licenses

timmy13 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:56:14 GMT

Thanks for such a rapid response. Actually, we are already using a license master in the newer 4.3 environment. But how can I get a 4.1 license and apply it to a 4.3 license master?

Thanks.

Re: Moving licenses

piebob — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:03:20 GMT

if you have an existing 4.1 license, you can retrieve it from your 4.1.x deployment using the information in this topic:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.1.8/Admin/InstallYourLicense

and install it into your 4.3 license master using the info in this topic:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Installalicense