Wake Clients

Wake Clients is a Command Launch operation that enables you to power-up PCs across a LAN by sending wake-up packets to their network cards. In addition to LAN-based operation, it also enables you to reach PCs on routed networks. Use Wake Clients to power on PCs, or to confirm that PCs are powered on, before running operations, such as Distribute Software, during off-peak periods when PCs may be switched off.

Before you use the Wake Clients operation, ensure your Site meets the following requirements:

    The network card, motherboard and power supply of the target PCs must support Wake-on-LAN, and be jumpered or cabled to allow it.

    The BIOS of the target PCs must be enabled for Wake-on-LAN wakeup.

    The MAC addresses and subnet of each target PC must be available in the Site database. (Use the Update Hardware Inventory operation to collect hardware data from Clients).

    The subnet mask cannot be set to 255.255.0.0 or 255.255.255.0.

    All intervening firewalls and routers must pass on subnetdirected broadcast packets on port 2304 when the Wake Clients operation is run.

To wake Clients from the Console, click the Wake Clients operation and select the Clients or groups you want to start. Alternatively, right-click the operation and choose Submit Job to schedule the operation.

Notes

    Wake-on-LAN can can sometimes wake other PCs in addition to the specified targets.

    Ensure that you leave sufficient time for the target PCs to finish booting before attempting to run other operations on the PCs.

Related Topics

Command Launch Operations

Scheduling Operations

Schedulers Overview