![]() ![]() The switch is connected to the smartTV, the RPi and the media server. So the WOL packets aren’t send strictly from the WOL forwarders setup in each subnet? They are basically sent from any client that is on at the time?The living room repeater is connected to a switch. If you have Dell systems, I’d be happy to share the script with you. ![]() We deploy this setting through BigFix using Dell OMCI and VBScript. For example, our Dell Optiplex systems have an “Auto-on Mode” feature, which can power on the computer at a specific time every day of the week (or Monday - Friday). I’m fairly certain that the developers are giving the power management site a major overhaul… hopefully this has already been addressed in the next version.īy the way, you may be able to schedule a wakeup time in the BIOS of your computers. I agree, I wish the interface for WoL Scheduling was similar to Scheduled Wake-from-standby. I incorrectly assumed that your machines were typically in standby. You’re right, scheduled Wake-from-Standby will not work on machines that are powered off. Regarding your second paragraph… We don’t use standby at all, all our users either leave them on or shut them down… So, I’m guessing I wouldn’t need to use that? Looking at that wizard though, I wish the WOL was that simple… Looks like it will wake up ALL computers that are in standby and you don’t have to select via subnet etc? The clients that run the task send the WoL packets to offline clients. I believe you’re actually supposed to target “All Computers” because the relevance is what determines which computers will execute the task.Įssentially, the wizard generates a task that is sent to machines on the subnet that have reported in recently. Your assumption about the target tab is correct. I agree! The Wake-on-LAN Scheduling Wizard isn’t very intuitive at all. There are plenty of times where our machines have entered standby while a software install or update action was running.īoyd, thanks for the reply… That “Open the ‘Take Action’ dialog box for advanced scheduling and deployment options” is kind of confusing… I did look at that once before… One question I had with that… Is the “Target” tab irrelevant for this? It’s a double-edged sword, because you don’t necessarily want every action to prevent standby, but for patching and software deployment it would be a welcome feature. Wish that the BES Client made the API call to prevent standby while tasks were actively running. However, there’s a few other gotchas in Windows power management, such as PC Narcolepsy, that make things more complicated than they should be. When combined, these two tasks do a fairly good job at waking machines for nighttime patching. This creates a scheduled task that will wake the machine at a specified time, without Wake-on-LAN. I also recommend combining this with a scheduled wake-up, which you can create using the Wake-from-Standby Scheduling wizard. Then, go to the execution tab and set the “Starts on” time constraint to around the time that you want the computers to wake up and do work. At the last page of the wizard, check “Open the ‘Take Action’ dialog box for advanced scheduling and deployment options” before clicking Finish. Regarding WOL prior to patching, you can sort of do this by deploying a task using the Wake-on-LAN scheduling wizard. ![]()
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