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License activation issue

u712596
Engager

Hello Support team,

The develop temporal license has expired recently, but when I've tried to reinstall the new license that it has been sent by email, i've got the next error message

Bad Request — web_1604432005.144831.lic: failed to add because: cannot add lic w/ subgroupId=DevTest:[email protected] to stack w/ subgroupId=Production

 

Could you helpme 

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alonsocaio
Contributor

Hi @u712596,

Have you removed the expired license before installing the new one?

If not, I would suggest you to remove it. You can do it using CLI.

First list all your licenses and identify your expired one:

splunk list licenses

Then, remove your expired license using its hash:

splunk remove licenses LICENSE_HASH

 After that you can install the new license. I had a similar issue a while ago and this helped solving.

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u712596
Engager

Thanks alonsocaio for your suggestions, I've solved and fix the issue 

I've got the next procedure too for anyone that is looking to solve similar issue

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.2/Admin/LicenserCLIcommands

 

Best Regards

Aldo

alonsocaio
Contributor

Hi @u712596,

Have you removed the expired license before installing the new one?

If not, I would suggest you to remove it. You can do it using CLI.

First list all your licenses and identify your expired one:

splunk list licenses

Then, remove your expired license using its hash:

splunk remove licenses LICENSE_HASH

 After that you can install the new license. I had a similar issue a while ago and this helped solving.

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