https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/enterprise-license/m-p/19658#M355 <P>I am currently using the free license version and have worked on enterprise version before, I was wondering if I switch to enterprise license, is it alright if I could use the same enterprise license for two separate instances? I would like to keep one for production and the other for staging environment strictly. Not sure if this is allowed, because I did read that for each instance a separate license is required, but since these two instances would be completely independent for monitoring purpose and wouldnt be having any kind of distributed searches running amongst them as well, I was a little confused</P> <P>The desired architecture would be</P> <P>ProductionIndexer --&gt;Set of ForwarderXseries</P> <P>StagingIndexer---&gt;Set of ForwarderYseries </P> <P>The two Indexers should be working fine with enterprise license with the forwarders from what I feel, but wanted to verify if this complies to Splunk Licensing terms and regulations</P> <P>Thanks,</P> Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:14:42 GMT rkumar1984 2010-12-31T23:14:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/enterprise-license/m-p/19658#M355 <P>I am currently using the free license version and have worked on enterprise version before, I was wondering if I switch to enterprise license, is it alright if I could use the same enterprise license for two separate instances? I would like to keep one for production and the other for staging environment strictly. Not sure if this is allowed, because I did read that for each instance a separate license is required, but since these two instances would be completely independent for monitoring purpose and wouldnt be having any kind of distributed searches running amongst them as well, I was a little confused</P> <P>The desired architecture would be</P> <P>ProductionIndexer --&gt;Set of ForwarderXseries</P> <P>StagingIndexer---&gt;Set of ForwarderYseries </P> <P>The two Indexers should be working fine with enterprise license with the forwarders from what I feel, but wanted to verify if this complies to Splunk Licensing terms and regulations</P> <P>Thanks,</P> Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:14:42 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/enterprise-license/m-p/19658#M355 rkumar1984 2010-12-31T23:14:42Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/enterprise-license/m-p/19659#M356 <P>It doesn't. You should check with your sales team for specifics.</P> Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:35:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/enterprise-license/m-p/19659#M356 bfaber 2011-01-01T00:35:01Z