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License Usage or duplicate

sgarcia — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:30:45 GMT

I have a license server where I have two indexer pools A and B configured.

Pool A consists of a cluster of 5 indexers and an average consumption of 500GB.

Pool B consists of 1 indexer and a consumption of 100GB per day.

In pool B, data from an F5 index is forwarded to the indexer in pool A.

My license consumption has increased to over 800GB total consumption. My question is:
Is forwarding data from indexer B to indexer A causing me to consume more license?
Would it help if I change the configuration to a single pool?

Re: License Usage or duplicate

richgalloway — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:22:02 GMT

Yes, copying data from one index to another, in the same or different indexer, will consume license (except for sourcetype=stash).

That said, I would expect you to use 600GB of license so the extra 200GB came from somewhere else, probably unexpected data sources.

Use the Monitoring Console to show license usage over time to see when the increase started. Then split the results by source or sourcetype to see which is responsible for the increase.

Re: License Usage or duplicate

sgarcia — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 04:58:49 GMT

Thanks for the reply, I will make the corresponding changes so as not to forward the data from one indexer or another different indexer. Now the question is that my license server is living in the heavy Forwarder, can I have license duplication problems?

Regards

Re: License Usage or duplicate

richgalloway — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:08:44 GMT

Probably not, but I'm not sure what you mean by "license duplication problems". An LM will store only one copy of a license.