topic Re: How do I get a free license? in Installation

How do I get a free license?

matt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:34:43 GMT

I'd like a use the free license, what do I need to do?

Re: How do I get a free license?

matt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:14 GMT

Version 4 support of the free license was introduced in version 4.0.5. Splunk Free is designed for personal, ad-hoc search and visualization of IT data. You can use Splunk Free for ongoing indexing of small volumes (<500MB/day) of data.

If you go over 500MB/day more than 3 times in a 30 day period, Splunk will continue to index your data, but search will be disabled until you are back down to 3 or fewer times in the 30 day period.

To switch to a Free License via the web interface:

Log in to Splunk Web as a user with admin privileges and navigate to Manager > License.
Review the text below the License and usage area, find the switch to a free license link, and click it. A login page is displayed.
Select Switch to Free License and click Continue.
You are prompted to reboot.

To switch to a Free License via the command line:

Copy the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-free.license to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk.license
Restart Splunk (./splunk restart)

Re: How do I get a free license?

benstraw — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:08:12 GMT

Re: How do I get a free license?

yannK — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:41:59 GMT

In 4.2 to switch to free license:

login the UI, go to manager > licensing
change the license group to "free license"
restart

Re: How do I get a free license?

chicodeme — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:44:43 GMT

Anyway at cmdline to change it? especially when using LWF/forwarders and gui is not running?

Re: How do I get a free license?

chicodeme — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:59:39 GMT

add to server.conf seems like a solution.. if using a forwarder.

[license]
active_group = Forwarder