What I do, assumes you use DHCP for most everything (since you need MAC addresses). Also get WOL.EXE from somewhere (easily found on the net) and your environment is reasonably static: Export the DHCP list to .TXT - you now have MAC addresses alongside machine names. Open file in Excel, kill everything but MAC addresses Open Excel 1. In column A, put <Path>\WOL.EXE (the entire row alongside the MAC addr's) 2. Dump the MAC addresses into COLUMN B In Column C, put =A1&" "&B1 (this concatenates the cells of A1 and B1 and puts a space in between them) Column C cut and paste into "WAKE-ALL.BAT". Schedule WAKE-ALL.BAT Done. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 503.548.5229 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Tom Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 6:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Wake on LAN options Folks, For those of you using wake-on lan, which product do you use? Our workstation management product is a Dell KACE Kbox, which works well, but the wake on lan doesn't have any features other than "on". I recall seeing some comments on other products (perhaps not on this list). I'd like to wake up PCs, run scans, updates before staff arrive. It would be nice if there were some sort of agent product where I don't have to reconfigure my infrastructure for wake-on-lan. Tom Miller Engineer, Information Technology Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board 757-788-0528 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
