(imported topic written by timfeldmann91)
I’m wiriting an SCCM interface to send wakeup to all computers in a collection when the advertisement deadline is approaching. Possibility is this could be thousands of computers. I’m trying to determine if I need to send multiple commands or if I can pass this many computers to the program.
(imported comment written by MattBoyd)
I don’t have a definitive answer, but you might want to spread out the requests just for the sanity of your network admins. I think I remember reading that sending too many WoL requests at once could overwhelm networking equipment in some cases…
I’ve send requests to as many 300 computers at once without much trouble… YMMV.
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
Hey Tim,
The Wake-on-Lan feature that this utility uses is able to wake up hundreds of thousands of computers, so it should be fine from a BigFix platform side.
However one thing i am not certain about is how capable a utility is at reading in thousands of parameters at the command line. You might find there is a character limit in there somewhere.
What kind of information are you using to target these machines? I can probably whip up a version of this utility that takes a file as an input (avoiding any command line issues), and while doing that i could probably adjust it to cater to the computer information you have (assuming “computer name” is not the property you want to target on)
-Zak
(imported comment written by BenKus)
You are using the tool here?
http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=555
You probably are running into a limit on the command line (which I think is either 8k or 32k)…
Ben