Reusing Splunk Heavy Forwarder License

[ssplunkadmin]

Can we stop using a Licensed Heavy Forwarder and reuse the same license on setting up another Heavy Forwarder ?

[gcusello]

Hi @ssplunkadmin,

what do you mean with "Licensed Heavy Forwarder"?

Heavy Forwarder hasn't a license.

If you mean that you have a licensed server that you want to use as HF, you can move the license into the License Master and use it with the other licenses.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

[richgalloway]

It's common practice to install a 0 GB license on heavy forwarders used with Splunk Cloud.  It avoids the restrictions associated with unlicensed servers.

[richgalloway]

I don't see why not, but you may want to contact the person who sent you the license to make sure.