[Casper] Wake On LAN

Brad Rellinger aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org
Wed Apr 1 07:21:50 PDT 2009


Hello,

This is a feature request - but I was looking for a way to do this today.

It would be nice if Casper Remote would automatically do a Wake-on-LAN 
if it fails to initially get an SSH connection - that way the computer 
would be awake when it retries SSH.

Just a thought.
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Brad Rellinger
Technology Specialist
Anthony Wayne Schools K-12
aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org

Miles Leacy wrote:
> I don't recall anything specifically in the Casper tools, however, if 
> you define a maintenance window, you could use a pmset script to ensure 
> computers are on and awake at a certain time.
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> 2009/1/8 Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu 
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>     Is there any mechanism that folks know of to do wake on lan in
>     Casper?  I can't seem to find anything in the documentation.  Or, do
>     folks leave this up to ARD?
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     j
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