How does splunk licensing work?

[klam1221]

Hi,

I just downloaded Splunk for 2.6 kernel linux distributions (64-bit).
How does licensing work and how many days do i have or do i just install/setup splunk
and go from there or do i need the key for it?

How does splunk work?

do i setup splunk server and on the client install the client agent or what?
please give me some insight so i can get things start and test out.

Thanks,
KL.

[sdaniels]

The Splunk trial license is good for 60 days. This will allow you to index up to 500 MB of data per day. More licensing details below.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses

For the splunk install please see the following:

How to install Splunk?

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/InstallonLinux

How to use Splunk?

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Installation/ReadytostartusingSplunk

[yannK]

About Splunk free.
After 60 days, without an enterprise license, the instance will switch to the free license. And some functionalities will go away (authentication, distributed search ...)
see http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.3.4/Admin/MoreAboutSplunkFree