How to Activate Your Supermicro Out of Band (SFT-OOB-LIC) license
There are 3 ways (IPMI Web GUI, SUM, SSM) of activating your SFT-OOB-LIC key after receiving from Dihuni.
IPMI WEB GUI
- Open the web browser
- Enter BMC IP address: https://bmc_ip_address
- Login by entering user name and password
- Select “Miscellaneous” from the top menu bar
- Select “Activate License” from the left menu
- Input the 24-digit OOB key obtained from Supermicro
- Click “Active”
- If successful, Node Product Key status would change from “Not activated” to “Activated”.
SUM
- SUM can be downloaded from https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SMS_SUM.cfm
- Click on “Download SMCI Software” near bottom of the page
- Upon finishing download, extract the content
- Go to the SUM directory and run the command as shown below(example is shown in Windows)
Note: SUM also works in Linux, please see SUM User Guide from the downloaded folder for detailed system requirement - After -i <IP or host name>
-u <username>
-p <password>
–key <node product key obtained from Supermicro> - If successful, it will prompt “Node product key (OOB) is activated for
SSM
- SSM can be downloaded from https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SMS_SSM.cfm
- Click on “Download SMCI Software” near bottom of the page
- Finish download, extract the content, and run the Installer
- Finish the installation process, start the SSM Web GUI
- Choose “Administration” from the left side bar(Image 1)
- Choose “Node PK Activation” from the left side bar(Image 2)
- Create a new .txt file and input the proper information in the correct format(i.e. removing the colons from the MAC address) as shown in Notes(Red Box in Image 3) The format is:
Mac_Address;BMC_IP_Address;License_Key
Note each field is separated by ; (semi-colon) - Upload the .txt file, input correct IPMI ID/Password, and click “Activate”(Image 3)
- Click “Run” on the prompted Window(Image 4)
- If successful, the status would show “Success” and a green check mark(Image 5)
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