How to transfer iDRAC enterprise license to another motherboard | PowerEdge Tips

This video is another follow up to the ongoing saga of my R720XD. So, I ended up re-installing the original motherboard after having swapped in the new motherboard in the last video. The reason for this is because I realized I needed to transfer the idrac 7 enterprise license from the old motherboard to the new motherboard, since it did not have the idrac enterprise license pre-installed. I was made aware of the capability to transfer the idrac license by several of my viewers, so thank you to those who shared that tip. In this video, I'm going to attempt to transfer the idrac enterprise license to the new motherboard and hope this will be helpful to someone else who might need to see how this can be done.

If you just want to see the actual commands for completing this process, skip to the timestamps marked with ** below.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Recap of my R720XD problems and why I re-installed the original motherboard
4:22 - Exporting iDRAC7 enterprise license from WebUI
5:47 - Software pre-requisites (on CentOS 7)
9:30 - Overview of the tools (smbios-sys-info & racadm)
10:40 - Programming the Service Tag into the motherboard **
11:22 - Verifying the Service Tag change
11:58 - Preparing for license import
13:34 - Importing the iDRAC7 enterprise license file **
14:58 - Resetting the iDRAC for changes to take effect
15:11 - Configuring iDRAC to use dedicated NIC
16:51 - Problems using DHCP, so I configured statis IP for iDRAC NIC
19:02 - Verifying iDRAC enterprise license from WebUI
20:40 - Wrap-up

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