adding advance ilo license

[SYSTEM]

I need to add the advance ILO license to 64 new blades.

Is there an automated way or script to do this?

The only way I have found is with the browser.

[SYSTEM]

Very simple via OA:

1. telnet or ssh to OA
2. use hponcfg like below

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HPONCFG ALL  << end_marker
<RIBCL VERSION="2.0">
<LOGIN USER_LOGIN="Dontcare" PASSWORD="UsingAutologin">
<RIB_INFO MODE="write">
<LICENSE>
  <ACTIVATE KEY="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" /> 
  </LICENSE>
</RIB_INFO>
</LOGIN>
</RIBCL>
end_marker

XXXXXXX is of course your HP iLO Adv. License key.

[SYSTEM]

how does it know witch blade to install license on?

Since there are 16 blades per enclosure and each license is different would we still have to touch each blade?

[SYSTEM]

The "ALL" statement issues the license key on all blades.

You should see about getting an Electronic license to deploy the same key:

HP iLO Advanced for BladeSystem including 1yr 24x7 Support Electronic License TA851AAE

NOTE: Electronic licenses can be used to purchase multiple licenses with a single activation key


And if it is Insight Control, you can deploy them through SIM

[SYSTEM]

If you did get 16 licenses rather than 1, just replace “ALL” with “1” for Blade Slot 1 and then duplicate that code block 15 times with the only change in each block being the Bay Number in the HPONCFG line and the Code itself.

With a bunch of codes in Excel you could even use Word and Mail Merge to generate 1 long script per enclosure (I’ve done this myself for a rollout of 22 c7000s back in the day)