topic After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license in Installation

After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license

esperanca — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 09:31:11 GMT

After picking free license at /en-US/manager/system/licensing I get redirected to the same page without any success or error.
This is preventing me from continuing developing.

Re: After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license

renjith_nair — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:04:58 GMT

@esperanca ,

Is it a fresh installation or you have been using it? If you were using it for sometime now and the Trial license expired, then you have to select Free license option and not the Enterprise because Enterprise expects a valid license key after 60 days or so .

Re: After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license

mstjohn_splunk — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:15:34 GMT

hi @esperanca,

Did you check out @renjith.nair 's comment? The user had a question that might help the community better understand your problem. Keep us updated on your issue and you'll have a good chance of getting it answered!

Re: After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license

esperanca — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 22:20:00 GMT

I did pick the free license, yes, all of them have the same error of just redirecting me back to the same page

Re: After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license

renjith_nair — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:20:32 GMT

After selecting the free and "save" try a restart of splunk

Re: After dowloading free splunk the license page keeps asking for me to pick a license

MuS — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:23:46 GMT

Hi there,

if nothing helps, edit server.conf in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/ and add

[license]
active_group =  Free

Restart Splunk and you're good to go 😉

cheers, MuS