Admin Manual

Configure a license slave

This topic discusses configuring a Splunk Enterprise instance as a license slave. Before you proceed, you may want to review these topics:

• Read How Splunk licensing works in this manual for an introduction to Splunk licensing.
• Read Allocate license volume for general information about allocating license volume across Splunk Enterprise instances.
• Read Configure a license master in this manual for instructions on setting up a license master.

Configure the instance as a license slave

1. On the instance that you want to configure as a license slave, log into Splunk Web and navigate to Settings > Licensing.

2. Click Change to Slave.

3. Switch the radio button from Designate this Splunk instance as the master license server to Designate a different Splunk instance as the master license server.

4. Specify the license master to which this license slave should report. You must provide either an IP address or a hostname and the Splunk management port, which is 8089 by default.

5. Click Save.

6. Restart Splunk Enterprise.

Revert to a standalone license on this instance

To switch to a standalone license, where the license is installed locally and is valid only for this instance, navigate to Settings > Licensing and click Switch to local master. If this instance does not already have an Enterprise license installed, you must restart Splunk for this change to take effect.