What is it?
Wake on LAN is a technology that allows a network professional to remotely power on a computer or to wake it up from sleep mode. By remotely triggering the computer to wake up and perform scheduled maintenance tasks, the technician does not have to physically visit each computer on the network.
Wake-on-LAN Vendors and Products¶
- Wake On Lan Task Sequence Extension Beta Download
Another Wake on Lan tool for Configuration Manager? Aren't there enough already? Aren't Wake on Lan Capabilities already in Configuration Manager?
System Center Tools created the SCT WOL extension tool due to multiple customers who want to use WOL capabilities with Configuration Manager, but don't want to spend extra money for a 3rd party product. Our belief is that the out of the box WOL capabilities combined with the extension tool will meet the needs of most customers.
- RSHUT PRO
Overview - System shutdown utility for Windows (95/98/2000/NT4/Me/XP and 2000/2003 Server) that allows quickly and automatically shutdown and wake up your computer, remote computers in your home LAN domain/workgroup or large corporate network.
Key Features
• Control all the computers in a LAN domain at once. Immediatelly or scheduled at specific time.
• Shutdown, restart, log off, hibernate, suspend or lock down computer(s).
• Basic or advanced scheduler allows different ways to schedule such as daily, weekly, etc.
• Saves time and work for network administrators from performing manually the same actions every day.
• Wake up remote computers with Wake-On-LAN technology.
• Autostart feature allows to automatically run in the system without logged on user.
• Allows to use shutdown confirmations or shutdown computers instantly without any prompts.
• Command line mode is available for scripting.
• Remote installation allows to quickly deploy software on networked computers.
• Saves your time, electrical energy and money on electricity bills.
- 1E - SMSWakeup
Overview The first and the best Wake-On-LAN product. Installed in over 2.5 million seats worldwide SMSWakeUp is proven technology that provides massive return on investment by powering on all PCs which were asleep or shutdown. By automatically turning on computers for software and patch deliveries in synchronisation with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), SMSWakeUp increases delivery success to 100%. Cutting the cost of delivery and reducing failure gives SMSWakeUp an ROI of less than three months.
SMSWakeUp has proven scalability, being successfully used at several 200,000+ seat organizations.
Key Features Of Version 5
• Extensive network wake state reporting - accurate reports on the success of SMS deployments using wake ups.
• SMS Client health reports and fixes - SMSWakeUp creates SMS Collections containing problem SMS Client resources, enabling quick and easy maintenance via provided fixes.
• SMS acceleration - using policy refresh and hardware inventory refresh, SMSWakeUp enables your SMS infrastructure to react quicker and be more up to date.
• Enhanced SMSWakeUp Console - Provides greater flexibility and control over SMSWakeUp functionality.
• Last man standing - SMSWakeUp now ensures that at least one machine per subnet is ready to receive and transmit wakeup signals.
Key Benefits
• “Set and forget” configuration - Once SMSWakeUp has been configured according to your SMS hierarchy and system population, no further configuration is required.
• Integrates fully with SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007 - SMSWakeUp integrates seamlessly with the SMS database, using network card data to power on PCs as required by SMS Advertisements.
• Configurable for any type of network - SMSWakeUp can even send remote wakeup requests on networks that do not allow Magic Packet forwarding because directed broadcasts are disabled.
• Enables Software Distribution staging - SMSWakeUp can be used to stage distributions by waking systems in batches. This reduces the load on the network and cuts any immediate impact on the SMS distribution points within the network.
- SMS Utilities - WakeonLanSMS - WakeonLanSMS is an innovative solution to making sure your software gets deployed at a time that is most convenient for your users. Deploying a large number of security patches, major software upgrades, or a new Operating System during business hours can leave a user without a usable computer for sometimes hours at a time. Ideally you want to do these functions during the middle of the night when the users and you are sound asleep. The problem is that most of your computers are “asleep” as well. WakeonLanSMS will allow you to safely deploy major system upgrades at whatever hour works best for your company.
**No agents to deploy or manage - Just install it once and you are done
**You don't have to enable directed-broadcasts on your routers
**Ability to include/exclude specific advertisements and/or collections
**SMS Console integration that allows you to perform manual wakeups on specific systems, collections, or advertisements
- TOP TECHNOLOGIES CONSULTING - RPM 2009 - the advanced and improved version of the successful WOL.NET 2007
Remote Power Management 2009 for SCCM is a web-based application that can be used to wake up or shutdown computers easily for software distributions or to achieve an active energy-monitoring. This can be done by administrators from within a central console (or alternatively directly from SCCM) or by an employee from a Self-Service Portal.
Core functions:
• Wake up or shutdown systems e.g. in order to deploy software, upgrades or critical patches outside of your working hours
• Energy Monitor: Gather energy consumption details from your environment to increase your energy savings
• Self-Service Portal: Let your users wake up their computers time and location independent by themselves
• Dashboard: Take a look on the essential key data (success rates, amount of jobs, average peak, service state) from a central position
• SMS/SCCM Integration: Use the RPM functionality from within SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007
Additional benefit:
• Hybrid mode: Magic-packets can be sent both with Multi-Master and Directed Broadcast
• Configuration of recurring jobs for daily, weekly or monthly execution
• No client side installation needed - fast implementation (agent-less)
• Central configuration of all components
• Significant higher success rate of software deployments and inventory data automatically
• RPM 2009 is scalable in order to adapt to large environments independently whether you use the Single-Master mode (one service) or Multi-Master mode (multiple services)
• Enhanced reporting functionalities and integrates into Microsoft® Reporting Services
• Working hours can be configured in order to prevent accidental maloperations
• Critical systems can be excluded centrally
• You can also wake up Apple Mac OS X systems
The new version passed the Works with Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2 Logo requirements and provides customers increased safety, innovative user interfaces and improvements in reliability. In addition the application successfully passed the VeriTest program Platform Works with Test for ISV Solutions which confirms the quality of the product. Try the energy savings calculator on our website to figure out your energy savings potential which will certainly lead to a fast ROI. You can find more information on our product website where you can also obtain a free trial version.
- RSHUT PRO - System shutdown utility for Windows (95/98/2000/NT4/Me/XP and 2000/2003 Server) that allows quickly and automatically shutdown and wake up your computer, remote computers in your home LAN domain/workgroup or large corporate network.
- SMS Wakeup on LAN - rkruetzfeld - Wake up desktops that are contained in an SMS Collection. It uses a server collection to remotely execute a magic packet to each destination desktop that is contained in the target client collection. This is a cheap way to get some WOL functionality built into your site.