[Casper] Wake On LAN

[Ryan Harter]

I agree that this would be a good feature.  This is fairly limited  
though for large networks because, normally, WOL packets get limited  
to the local subnet, at least in our environment.  Do other people  
have this issue?

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Apr 1, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Brad Rellinger wrote:

> 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.
> --------
> Brad Rellinger
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>
> 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
>> <mailto:jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>>
>>
>>    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
>>    --
>>    Jared Nichols
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