topic Re: do i need a different license to install splunkforwarder? in Getting Data In

do i need a different license to install splunkforwarder?

just4me — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:24:16 GMT

do i need a different license to install splunkforwarder if i already have an enterprise license for splunk? also installing splunk forwarder seems like a separate instance that i have to install on my server? is that correct

Re: do i need a different license to install splunkforwarder?

piebob — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:39:23 GMT

documentation for forwarder licenses is here:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses#Forwarder_license

the tl;ldr answer is: no. if you're installing a universal forwarder, it will not be indexing any data, so you don't need to install a separate license on it (it comes with its own separate license pre-installed and enabled).

the universal forwarder is a separate package and should be installed as needed on the system(s) from which you want to forward data. review this topic and others about forwarding:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Aboutforwardingandreceivingdata

Re: do i need a different license to install splunkforwarder?

just4me — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:43:07 GMT

i'm planning on installing heavy fowarder as we need the indexing feature of the heavy indexer.
do i need another liecense in this case?

Re: do i need a different license to install splunkforwarder?

piebob — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:52:16 GMT

if you are going to be indexing data on that forwarder, you do not need a separate license, but you will need to add it as a slave to your license master and give it access to the enterprise license stack per the docs link i provided above.