Installing, managing, and monitoring licenses
Now that you have a comprehensive understanding of license types and how license usage is calculated against the license quota, we will discuss adding, configuring, and managing a license. As a system administrator, these tasks are quite important. We will take the example of the Splunk Enterprise license type to discuss the following topics:
- Adding a license
- License stacking and pools
- License manager and license peer
- License usage and alerting
Let’s discuss each of these in detail in the following sections.
Adding a license
A Splunk Enterprise license is a file with the .license extension, which is generally purchased from Splunk. The following steps are applicable to other types of license, such as the Developer license.
A license file can be added to Splunk in either of the following two approaches:
- On the Splunk web home page (
https://<hostname>:8000), go to the menu in the top...
