EditWhat 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.
1E SMSWakeUp
===Wake-on-LAN Vendors and Products===
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.
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.
Summary - An advanced scheduling solution for SMS 2003 / ConfigMgr, deployed on over 300,000 workstations and customers of 150,000 seats (e.g. "proven scalability"). All actions including software distribution, hardware inventory, software inventory, and software metering can be scheduled to happen outside regular work hours, regardless of the current state of the affected systems (on/off status, unsaved documents, currently running processes). User interruptions no longer occur and user interference in executing administrative functions is removed.
SMS Companion supports dynamic peer-to-peer and subnet-directed broadcast models.
In addition to WOL SMS Companion supports the following technologies:
• New in this version
→ Power usage reporting - Energy usage and consumption
→ Power state reporting - Report startups, shutdowns, hibernates, etc
• Core features
→ Policy Merging (Pure SMS Integration)
→ Wake on Schedule (Wakeup without magic packets)
→ Intelligent Power Management (Machines stay awake only as long as necessary)
→ Shutdown logic (Hibernate instead of shutdown if applications are running)
→ Last Machine on Subnet (Always available WOL peer relay)
→ Excluded Hours (service windows)
→ Load Leveling (Balance load over entire service window)
→ Client Power State Control (instant or scheduled)
→ Instant Actions with WOL integration
→ API for access to WOL and Instant Actions
→ Emergency Software Distribution
→ 38 Web Reports (18) WOL, (10) Power Usage, (10) Power Event
→ Reporting integrated with SMS / ConfigMgr - no additional infrastructure required
- 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
EditScript and Utilities (roll your own)
- 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.