topic Re: Things you can not do with forwarder license in Getting Data In

Things you can not do with forwarder license

t_kasuga — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:32:23 GMT

Hi,
I applied a forwarder license with Enterprize installer and built a forwarder.
I want to know the list of things that we can not do with forwarder license.
thank you.

Re: Things you can not do with forwarder license

renjith_nair — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:38:05 GMT

Hi @t_kasuga,

The Forwarder license is only used to simply forward data. It is not valid for use on instances that also perform additional functions, such as indexing. So you can not index,search etc using forwarder license. For a universal forwarder, the license is enabled or applied automatically.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.1/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses

Re: Things you can not do with forwarder license

woodcock — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 17:35:34 GMT

Do not touch any licensing configurations on the forwarder. Just leave that alone. The only time this is not true is if you are using a Heavy Forwarder, which is really an Indexer that forwards to other Indexers instead of writing to disk. If you have HF, then treat the license like an Indexer or you will get into license violations.

Re: Things you can not do with forwarder license

t_kasuga — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 00:45:26 GMT

Thank you

I recognize that it is impossible to schedule a report with a splunk server which forwards mainly to forwarding license.
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/664039/can-not-register-schedule-with-fowarder-license.html

I also want to know what other limitations exist.