Installation

How to switch to perpetual license

abhayneilam
Contributor

Hi,
I am currently using SPLUNK 5.0.1 Enterprise Trial version which is going to expire soon in the next week, I want wo swithch to the perpetual Free license.

Could you please help me out regarding this as this is needed in urgent basis

Thanks in Advance

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Drainy
Champion

Er, did you read the link they posted? It has a helpful bullet point list of exactly that..

abhayneilam
Contributor

Many Many thanks for this ... But what are the issues I can face If I do that ( to free license ) , what is the limitation of free license ?

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