Step 3: Install or update your license

Step 3: Install or update your license

If you are performing a new installation of Splunk or switching from one license type to another (for example from Free to Enterprise), you must update your license. You can update your license using the CLI or Splunk Web.

• If you are installing a new Splunk enterprise license for the first time, you will need to log in with the default administrator account: username admin and password changeme.
• Your license is in the email that you received from splunk.com after you signed up for a free trial or purchased Enterprise Splunk.
• You must have a separate license for every instance of Enterprise Splunk that you deploy.

Note: These instructions are for Splunk 3.0 and later, for earlier versions, see 2.2.3 instructions.

Via Splunk Web

1. Open the email Splunk sent you containing your license.

2. Select the license text with your mouse and copy it.

3. Start Splunk.

4. Launch a supported browser and go to the URL Splunk displayed in a text file when you started it.

The URL looks like http://<servername>:8000. Use the server name and port you specified (port 8000 is the default value).

5. In Splunk Web, click the Admin link in the upper right hand corner.

6. Click Admin -> License & Usage and then click Change license.

7. Paste your new license into the text box and click Save.

8. From the Admin -> Server -> Control tab, restart the Splunk Server.

Via the command line

1. Navigate to the splunk.license file, located in the ./etc/ directory of the Splunk home directory (referred to as $SPLUNK_HOME in this documentation).

2. Copy your new or previous license key file into ./etc/splunk.license beneath your Splunk home directory.

cp -p splunk.license $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/

3. When you've copied the license file, start or restart the Splunk Server.

/$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk restart

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