Software

1. BMC WEB GUI

• Go to the BMC web, and log in with the credential
• From the left side menu, click on “Maintenance” tab, and select “License Activation”



• Then click on the “Select File” button, and choose the text file with the license key from Supermicro and click on the “Upload” blue button:



• Upon successful activation, a pop-up would show success and the respective license key SKU would show next to the Node Product Key Status. The example in screenshot above shows “SFT-DCMSSINGLE”.
• If you get a format error, please check the text file, as the most common error is the MAC address has not been removed:

 

Example of incorrect text file content:

2. SUM

• SUM can be downloaded from the link below. Please always use the latest version

  https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/supermicro-update-manager

• Click on “Download SMCI Software” near bottom of the page
• Upon finishing the download, extract the content
• In the command line, navigate to the extracted SUM directory and run the command as shown below:
• In-Band Activation for Single Key (Through OS):

  

• Out of band Activation for Single Key

  (SUM can be installed on remote system for license activation):

  Using Key input

  

  Or using a text file:

  instead of using --key like above, replace the word key with key_file and the text file name as below:

  

  

  Note: The text file(test.txt) will include <BMC MAC address>; <License Key> shown as below:

  

• Multiple Servers(nodes) Activation through SUM Out-of-Band method:

  [SUM_HOME]# ./sum -l List.txt -c ActivateProductKey –-key_file test.txt

  User can input List.txt file with suggested info:

  

  test.txt is received from Supermicro with format of; one pair per line. User can use this file during activation.

  Note: SUM 2.5.0 and newer version allows different keys to be activated at the same time.

  Below is an example:

  

  After executing either method from above, the success execution response would be similar as shown below:

  

3. Redfish

• URI: /redfish/v1/Managers/1/LicenseManager/ActivateLicense
• Method: POST
• Payload: Use license file when using body type file or use content of license file for text.

  

  

• Query license activation through Redfish
• • URI: /redfish/v1/Managers/1/LicenseManager/QueryLicense
  • Method: GET