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Can we set up the Distributed Management Console using the 60 day trail license?

saifuddin9122
Path Finder

Hello

I just want to know whether we can set up the DMC using the trail license (60 days)??

If so, how can I do it?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

The DMC is free and does not require any license to function. You can set it up pretty much the same way for any Splunk Environment except for an all-in-one. The documentation is very good:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/DMC/DMCoverview

hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Yes, you can.

saifuddin9122
Path Finder

can you point me to the process....?

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jlaw
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/DMC/Deploymentsetupsteps for a distributed deployment (for example if you have separate indexers and search heads) or http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.3/DMC/Singleinstancesetup if you're using only one Splunk instance for everything. An Enterprise Trial license has all the same features as Enterprise, with a 500 MB/day indexing limit. (Internal log files do not count toward that quota.)

hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Regardles of the type of license you are using, it all starts here - http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/DMC/Deploymentsetupsteps

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