topic Re: License Pool Name Change in Installation

Can I dynamically change a license pool name?

OldManEd — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 19:41:26 GMT

Can I dynamically change a license pool names?

We have 2 instances on Splunk running and all our search heads and indexers are set up as peers of each other. When I go to "Deployment Monitor" to review License Usage, unfortunately almost everything shows up as "auto_generated_pool_enterprise".

My question is can I dynamically edit this name to something else more descriptive?

Thanks in advance.

Re: License Pool Name Change

yannK — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:26:12 GMT

Go to the license-manager, in the UI. settings > licensing > click on the name to edit, and change it.

Re: License Pool Name Change

OldManEd — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:29:18 GMT

Are you saying to change the entry in "Description"?

Re: License Pool Name Change

OldManEd — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:44:32 GMT

OK, nothing is changing. Do you have any other suggestions?

Re: License Pool Name Change

yannK — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:55:09 GMT

My bad, the description can be updated in the UI, but not the name.

you could create a new pool and delete the default one.
Reduce the initial pool size first (use the option specific amount), create the new one, transfer all the indexers, delete the old one, and finally allocate all the remaining license size to the new pool.
or rename it in the configuration file of the license-master, then restart to apply.

If you look in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf
[lmpool:auto_generated_pool_enterprise]
please rename the stanza
[lmpool:this_is_my_renamed_pool]

Re: License Pool Name Change

OldManEd — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:09:07 GMT

Changing the name in the server.conf file and then running a restart on the license server worked. Thanks Yann.