topic Re: Remove iLO License Key in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Remove iLO License Key

Joe Casale — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:44:25 GMT

Is there a way to remove the license key in iLO w/o resetting the entire server? Optimally I would be most happy if I could do it with the online config util?

Thanks!

Re: Remove iLO License Key

KarloChacon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:07:51 GMT

hi Joe

yes you can

just download an ssh application like putty
log in to your server one there use this command

delete /map1 license

ssh will hang but let it do that for 90 secs after that close ssh and the key will be removed

anything else just let me know
regards

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Joe Casale — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:25:45 GMT

Appreciate this info.
So I simply need to enable ssh then perform this step.

Thanks!

Re: Remove iLO License Key

KarloChacon — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:22:24 GMT

yes you are right in that case you must enable / open that port

try and let me know it has worked for me

regards

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Dave73 — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:11:18 GMT

Thanks

Re: Remove iLO License Key

SFHR — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:54:39 GMT

Please update with outcome.....

regards//

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Abu Abdullah — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:17:46 GMT

Thanks,

it was wonderful

is there any user guide/manual for this ilo command line?

Re: Remove iLO License Key

riahc3 — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:03:07 GMT

Doesnt work for me...

Re: Remove iLO License Key

waaronb — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:13:38 GMT

I use the command line config (cpqlocfg.exe) to manage some of my management processors... I have a script to add a license key, but I don't know if the same would work if you just leave the key blank... something like:

Save that in a file like "license.xml" and then: cpqlocfg.exe -s iloIPADDRESS -f license.xml -u iloUser -p iloPass

Like I said, I don't know if there's a separate thing you should try to deactivate or remove a key...it might just give an error if you pass it a blank string, or it would try adding it as an additional license. The old documentation I have mentioned deactivating as well but didn't say how to do it... I'm guessing. :)

Re: Remove iLO License Key

WinHosting — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:25:29 GMT

Should I open a new thread...?

Interesting info.

We have some 2000 iLO advanced licenses to manage and we do it manually due to various problems with Insight Manager (7.2).

We are moving toward using a single key for all systems and I am curious as to if the cpqlocfg.exe could work to not only delete the old key but to update the iLO advanced license on the managed nodes to our new shared key.

Once we get the issues worked out of SIM, I know it can automate this for us.

As well we may be able to use SCCM and make these key updates if it can be scripted.

Thank you

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Jimmy Vance — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:52:24 GMT

WinHosting wrote:
Should I open a new thread...?
Interesting info.
We have some 2000 iLO advanced licenses to manage and we do it manually due to various problems with Insight Manager (7.2).
We are moving toward using a single key for all systems and I am curious as to if the cpqlocfg.exe could work to not only delete the old key but to update the iLO advanced license on the managed nodes to our new shared key.
Once we get the issues worked out of SIM, I know it can automate this for us.
As well we may be able to use SCCM and make these key updates if it can be scripted.
Thank you

I haven't tried, but you can probably just use cpqlocfg to apply the new key overwriting the old one.

Re: Remove iLO License Key

wandersick — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 23:58:37 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the tips. While cpqlocfg.exe does the job of replacing iLO keys perfectly, it cannot remove the iLO key by stripping the key from the XML file (during my test on a HPE DL380 gen9 server with iLO4).

The error returned was:

<RIBCL VERSION="2.23">
<RESPONSE
STATUS="0x0001"
MESSAGE='Error: Line #4: syntax error near """".'
/>
</RIBCL>

The xml file I used was:

<RIBCL VERSION="2.0">
<LOGIN USER_LOGIN="administrator" PASSWORD="password">
<RIB_INFO MODE="write">
<LICENSE>
<ACTIVATE KEY=""/>
</LICENSE>
</RIB_INFO>
</LOGIN>
</RIBCL>

(Note: If key is specified in the ACTIVATE tag, then no error will be returned,)

And the command submitted was:

cpqlocfg.exe -s IP_ADDRESS -f license.xml -u administrator -p password

Is there any way to remove the iLO license key? Thank you.

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Clive_Robinson — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:25:00 GMT

There is a parameter to remove the license which no longer seems to be documented as far as I can see, as mentioned in other posts. I can't find it in historical docs either though I think I have seen it in the past.

The following script does the trick on a BL460c Gen9 iLO4 using HPONCFG from the OA CLI.

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Gary Mueller — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:09:10 GMT

Any new information on this does not work on iLo4 Apollo XL420

Re: Remove iLO License Key

Jimmy Vance — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:23:43 GMT

@Gary Mueller wrote:
Any new information on this does not work on iLo4 Apollo XL420

It should. Quick method is to just reset the iLO to factory default