Splunk License Management
One of the key responsibilities of a Splunk system administrator is license management, When you install Splunk Enterprise for the first time, either for personal or commercial use, you need to configure the license to enable its functionality; otherwise, its default license validity will expire in 60 days. By the end of this chapter, you should understand license types, installation, how Splunk licensing works, license allocation, and license violations, and we will conclude with the license usage report in the Monitoring Console.
The overall goal of this chapter is to familiarize you with Splunk licensing so that you will be able to choose the right license type, stack your license file if you have more than one type, and configure and allocate the right volumes to peers. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Introducing license types
- Understanding license warnings and violations
- How licensing works
- Installing, managing...
