[Casper] Wake On LAN

[Ernst, Craig S.]

That would be our limitation as well Ryan. We would need to have a system on that segment that stays awake to send the packet. On the Windows side here that can be accomplished with Night Watchmen, which is what we use for power management for Windows. To the point that if the one system in that subnet goes down it's smart enough to wake one up before it goes down first so one system is always there under normal circumstances. We were going to look at a way to feed the information about the Macs network connectivity to it's database so it could send the packet as well, but the JSS doesn't collect enough of the network information we need to do it from initial conversation.

It would be a very helpful tool to have right in the JSS.

Craig E


On 4/1/09 9:58 AM, "Ryan Harter" <rharter at uwsp.edu> wrote:

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
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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.
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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
<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
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