Swap the license master
You can change the license master by promoting a slave to master and demoting the old master to a slave.
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Promote a license slave to master:
- On the slave, navigate to Settings > Licensing.
- Follow the prompts to configure the instance as a license master.
- Restart the instance.
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On the new license master, add the license keys:
- See Install a license.
- Check that the license keys match those in the old license master.
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Point the other license slaves to the new license master: On each slave:
- Navigate to Settings > Licensing.
- Change the master license URI to point to the new license master.
- Click Save.
- Restart the slave instance..
- On one of the license slaves, confirm the connection to the new license master.
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Demote the old license master to a slave:
- Navigate to Settings > Licensing
- Click Change to slave.
- Ignore the restart prompt.
- Click Designate a different Splunk Enterprise instance as the master license server to point the instance to the new license master.
- Stop the instance.
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Delete the old license files under
$SPLUNK_HOME/etc/licenses/enterprise/
. - Start the instance.
- Confirm that the instance connects as a slave to the new license master.
Delete a license | Manage licenses from the CLI |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 7.3.7, 7.3.8, 7.3.9, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.4, 8.1.5, 8.1.6, 8.1.7, 8.1.8, 8.1.9, 8.1.10, 8.1.11, 8.1.12, 8.1.13, 8.1.14, 8.2.0, 8.2.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.4, 8.2.5, 8.2.6, 8.2.7, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.10, 8.2.11, 8.2.12
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