License for non prod server

[hectorvp]

Hello Splunkers, 

Our current requirement is to only forward events from servers to customers indexers.

We have decided to opt minimum of 2GB or 5GB of Splunk Enterprise license since we aren't storing any logs.i think this will suffice our need.

Now we need to have a test server where we may have some testing when our technical add ons has been customizied, before deploying new add ons on prod deployment server.

Which License do we need for test server???

Dev/Test license having 50GB capacity? But I read it is a personal dev/test...

Or any other license?

We are expecting to reside test server within the network where prod servers reside.This will help us not allwoing any events to travel out of network and security issues.

What are general approachs by splunk professionals ?

PS: We are setting up splunk env for the first time and new with splunk skillsets.

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

If your production license has enough extra capacity to support your test system then it's probably easiest to for your test system to use the production LM.

It's not my place to says if it's OK to use a personal dev/test license.  Consult Splunk about that.

Keeping the test system in standby mode until needed makes sense.

I don't know what the cost is for a dev/test license.  Your Splunk rep can help with that.

[richgalloway]

Depending on how much data your test server will ingest, you may be able to point it to your Production license master.

You can also ask Splunk for a dev license to use for building your TAs.

[hectorvp]

thanks @richgalloway ,

Our technical add on would only be for testing purpose of simple configurations and won't ingest more than 50GB/day,

Will it be ok if we use personal dev/test license??? We won't be having any full time development of add ons, basically it would be change requests to make simple conf changes, test it and push it in prod dev server.

I'm having thought to keep test server on stand by mode and only use when such requests arrive.

Does this dev license you mentioned in ur response, a paid license???