Installation

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

esperanca
Explorer

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.

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MuS
Legend

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

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renjith_nair
Legend

@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 .

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mstjohn_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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!

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esperanca
Explorer

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

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renjith_nair
Legend

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

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