Summary

We have come to the end of the license management chapter, which has been very comprehensive. Licensing is native to Splunk Enterprise, and the naming conventions take a bit of time to digest.

We began with the licensing types that Splunk provides and then went through the differences between them to examine the suitability of different licenses for different deployment options. Splunk provides Enterprise Free and Trial licenses and Developer licenses with some limitations. To enable all the features of Splunk Enterprise, you need a valid license file. If a license is used beyond its limitations, a license warning will be raised, and the license will be treated as being in violation after a certain number of warnings. There are no violations for the infrastructure license, and the Enterprise license has a quota of 100 GB or more. License violations block important features, such as searching, but indexing continues. The Free and Trial licenses cannot be reset from violation...