topic Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master? in Deployment Architecture

Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

jdastmalchi_spl — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:28:12 GMT

I have License master splunk version 6.1.4. I have now installed 6.2 version on some servers and these servers don't work as license slaves with 6.1.4 license master.
Is there a version incompatibility? Does the license master need to be the same version?
I get these errors on the license master:
11-18-2014 09:38:42.363 +0000 ERROR LMHttpUtil - signature mismatch between computed and actual for uri /services/masterlm/usage
11-18-2014 09:38:42.363 +0000 ERROR LMMasterRestHandler - path=/masterlm/usage: invalid signature on request from ip=10.73.1.206

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

jdastmalchi_spl — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:52:04 GMT

in server.conf you have a key "pass4SymmKey" under the General stanza "[general]" this is not to be mistaken with the pass4SymKey used for clustering. This pass4SymmKey is used in the license master/slave communication. So you may have set this password in $SPLUNK-HOME/system/local/server.conf

[general]
pass4SymmKey = test

If you set this in 6.1.4 after restarting splunk it saves it as plain text and does not get encrypted, however the same password in 6.2 after restart will get encrypted and will look something like this "pass4SymmKey = $1$W5xMFCIb8FGj”.

As long as you understand this and respect the difference it will work, if you suspect this is wrong and copy paste the encrypted pass to the license master this will break the communication as the behaviorrs are different.

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

andrey2007 — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:42:45 GMT

As I understood from answer in case of 2 clusters which use same License master you must have same pass4SymmKey in general stanza in both clusters? And what is about reverse compatibility when I have 6.2 License master with specified pass4Symmkey and 6.1.5 slaves without such parameter?

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

thomas_forbes — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:34:24 GMT

I had the same issue, but this suggested fix did nothing to help. I am not sure what is going on.

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

cirkit1 — Thu, 19 May 2016 22:17:13 GMT

Can you just copy the encrypted pass4symmkey string to the other license slaves nodes?

Or do you have to have the plain text version and enter into the pass4symmkey key, restart, and let it encrypt it?

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

cirkit1 — Thu, 19 May 2016 22:23:02 GMT

IF i were to reset the pass4symmkey in the [general] stanza on the license master, will it have any impact to the pass4symmkey in the [clustering] stanza?

just want to make sure these are 2 separate pass4symmkey for 2 different purposes (licensing vs clustering) and hoping one does not affect the other.

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

j0shrice — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 23:09:21 GMT

Was there any update here if it will affect say a Deployer's connection. We are getting this error only on the deployer

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

dkolekar_splunk — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:20:22 GMT

A license master must always be of equal or later version than its license slaves.

Re: Why is my 6.2 license slave not working with my 6.1.4 license master?

splunkreal — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 22:05:17 GMT

Hello,

Our test environment uses production LM and we never had any compatibility issue upgrading first test nodes :

6.2.3 > 6.5.2

6.5.2 > 7.1.4

7.1.4 > 7.3.4

We plan to upgrade 7.3.4 to 8.2.2, any possible issue?

Thanks