We are pleased to announce the availability of Scheduled Wake-on-LAN functionality in the platform. This Scheduled Wake-on-LAN functionality adds to the platform’s existing on-demand Wake-on-LAN capabilities and previously was only available as part of Power Management.
The new content can be found under the “Manage Wake-on-LAN” and “Deployment Health Checks” sections of the BigFix Management domain.
Note: Advanced Wake-on-LAN functionality such as Last Man Standing and other Power Management capabilities are available only through the Power Management product.
Highlights include:
Ability to create and maintain one time, daily, weekly or monthly scheduled wake-ups using BigFix Wake-on-LAN technology.
Scheduled wake-ups run on client local time, and do not require any special router configuration to run.
Central management of wake-up schedules restricted by operator roles.
Ability to overcome the PC Narcolepsy condition on Windows Vista/7 computers.
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Affected Fixlet Messages:
Wake-on-LAN Analysis (ID 840)
Enable Wake-on-LAN Medic (ID 842)
Disable Wake-on-LAN Medic (ID 843)
Update Wake-on-LAN Medic (ID 847)
BES Client Setting: Designate Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (ID 571)
BES Client Setting: Remove Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (ID Fixlet 848)
Enable Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet - Windows XP/Vista/Win7/2008 (ID Fixlet 845)
Disable Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet - Windows XP/Vista/Win7/2008 (ID Fixlet 844)
PC Narcolepsy: Set System Unattended Sleep Timeout - Windows Vista/7 (ID Fixlet 846)
BES Server Plugin Service is not Configured Correctly (ID Fixlet 841)
Affected Wizards/Dashboards:
Wizard: Schedule Wale-on-LAN
Dashboard: Deployment Health Checks
Actions to Take:
Active Wake-on-LAN Analysis (ID 2)
Install BES Server Plugin Service (ID 708) if it’s applicable
Enable Wake-on-LAN Medic (ID 842)
Manage Wake-on-LAN schedules in the Schedule Wake-on-LAN wizard
You need to have the “Wake-on-LAN Medic” setup to do scheduled wakeups. Check the “Enable Wake-on-LAN” fixlet, and its prerequisite “Install BES Server Plugin Service” and run them on your server, if they are relevant.
Is it possible to do a manual WOL for an unmanaged asset? If the IP and MAC are known in the unmanaged asset list should it not be possible? However there is no right-click WOL option. Could it be done via a manual task?
In my case it’s a Wyse terminal I’m trying to wake up.
You wont be able to wake up unmanaged assets through the platforms built in mechanism. The platform knows how to wake up a device based on some information it picks up when the device registers, however since unmanaged assets dont register (they are just picked up by a scan), the platform wont be able top wake them up.
You wont be able to wake up unmanaged assets through the platforms built in mechanism. The platform knows how to wake up a device based on some information it picks up when the device registers, however since unmanaged assets dont register (they are just picked up by a scan), the platform wont be able top wake them up.
The platform actually sends wakeup notifications (rather than WOL magic packets) from the server through the relay hierarchy, till it finds a WOL Forwarder in the same subnet as the target computer. The WOLF then sends the actual wakeup broadcast magic packets.
Since the unmanaged assets aren’t real bes clients, the server cant figure out any of this, so there unfortunately isn’t really a way to use it here.
The best you can do is use bigfix to run a WOL exe to wakeup the UA through an action. You would have to figure out which computer is in the same subnet as the target machine (maybe the UA scan point machine?). This actually isn’t too different from the way we used to do it… though it definitely has its drawbacks.
I have configured LMS & designated forwarded in a subnet.
When I right click any computer and select “Send wake on lan request”, it works properly and powers on the machine.
However, when I use “Schedule wake on Lan” wizard it does not work. I have installed all the pre-requistes. Power Managment Dashboard shows all required steps as PASS.