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Do I need to restart a license slave if I change license master?

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Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If I need to move to another license master, do I have to restart my indexer?

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dart
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you are already using a license master on an indexer, and switch your indexer to another master, you do not need to restart Splunk on the indexer.

(Tested on Splunk 5.0.3)

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dart
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

If you are already using a license master on an indexer, and switch your indexer to another master, you do not need to restart Splunk on the indexer.

(Tested on Splunk 5.0.3)

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