Same Licence over multiple instances

[shayvd]

Hi,
We have an enterprise version of Spunk and are running numerous instances of Splunk with LicenceMaster. We have one instance of splunk on an isolated network which is unable to communicate with the LicenceMaster. Are we able to use the same licence number from our other instance of splunk on this isolated instance?

Thanks.

[martin_mueller]

Using the same license in multiple environments would surely violate your license terms.

Either poke a hole in your network to let all indexers communicate with a central license master, or talk to support to get your license split in two smaller licenses.

[martin_mueller]

To get definitive statements about license terms you should talk to splunk and your legal team, answers can only give you opinions.

[martin_mueller]

Yeah, log throughput is what matters... but if you used the same license in two unconnected environments you'd be going for twice the throughput, violating your terms.

That's why you'll either need a shared license master that totals up all usage from all environments, or a split license to assign parts of your total license to unconnected license masters.

[hettervik]

Do you know if Splunk has some sort of policy when it comes to separate test and prod environments? If the environments are totally separated, we would need to separate licenses, or use the same license twice. It is my understanding that some software companies allow this sort of license copy (using the same license in test and prod), but I cant find any specific statements about this in the Splunk license agreement.

[shayvd]

Thanks Martin. I was thinking the licencing more more to do with log throughput rather than instances running.

I'll check into your suggestions though.

Thanks.