Tips on updating SuperMicro BIOS

[thecoffeeguy]

Hey Folks

I was gifted an old SM board recently for my FreeNAS box.
This is the specific one:

SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCL-F-O

I am pretty sure the BIOs and other pieces need to be updated.
However, I was testing out the 'sum.exe' and trying to do some stuff remote, but it says I can not do it because it is not licensed for OOB.

How do folks update their SM bios? I would prefer not to burn to a USB stick and go that route.
Any recommendations?

Thx

 

[Rand__]

If you dont want to do it via USB stick you could either buy a OOB license or try to get one for free asking SM for an evaluation license.
Never done it myself but doesn't seem to be difficult from what I hear

 

[i386]

I use sum.exe locally on boards without ipmi and remotely for boards with ipmi + oob licenses (~$20 per board)

 

[nthu9280]

Mine are home lab, so I just use the USB most of my boards and don't feel like getting the OOB license for each of them. X10DRi board that I have did come with the licence so I can do update that one board.

I have not tried the virtual media option on the console for updating bios but have used to boot using iso of live-cd /memtest etc. I don't see why It count not be used for this purpose.

 

[K D]

I've done Bios update On X10 boards using IPMI and virtual media. No issues there.

 

[thecoffeeguy]

Turns out, cant use that tool on X9 boards...just asked support. Have to do it the old fashioned way and hook up a monitor keyboard....

wonder if it is even wworth flashing?