Moving Distributed environment to a different License Server

[justindett]

Hi,

Can someone please assist me with the steps/commands that need to be performed when pointing existing Splunk components (Deployment Server, Search Heads, Heavy Forwarder, Indexer) to a different existing License Server?

We currently have two separate environments with their own License Servers, now this is all being merged into one license. So, one of the environments needs to point to the other existing License Server where the new license will be installed.

Thanks

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

For each Splunk instance you have, change the manager_uri setting in the [license] stanza of server.conf and restart the instance.  For a SHC, this is done via the SHC Deployer.  For an indexer cluster, use the Cluster Manager.

[justindett]

Thanks for the response. I have tried the following, but it times out. I assume its a port issue.

[license]
manager_uri = https://servername:8089

[richgalloway]

Make sure the LM is running.  Confirm 8089 is the LM's management port (it's the default).  Verify your firewalls allow connections to that port.

[justindett]

I tried a different server in the same IP range now to test and the method you mentioned worked just fine. 

So was the port being blocked.

Thanks for the help.