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Bare metal machine with using Wake on LAN

Last post 08-20-2008 4:32 PM by Brian S. Tucker. 1 replies.
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  • 08-19-2008 2:16 AM

    Bare metal machine with using Wake on LAN

    I’ve been unsuccessful thus far getting machines to Wake on Lan (WoL) through System Center Configuration Manger 2007.  I had enabled the computer to boot from the NIC in BIOS, and had configured Windows to not allow the network card to shut off to save power and enabled Wake on LAN in advertisement, but was still unable to wake the machine.

    I am using a free utility to manually wake up a computer.  MC-WOL can be used from a command prompt to manually wake a WoL configured computer.  The syntax to do so is:

     mc-wol.exe  MacAddressOfWoLMachine

    I was able to successfully boot my machine using mc-wol.exe, so my problem must be in SCCM.

    Could SCCM wake computer up with MAC address only. How can I deploy OSD to servers with using wake on LAN?

    • Post Points: 20
  • 08-20-2008 4:32 PM In reply to

    Re: Bare metal machine with using Wake on LAN

    I don't have a physical machine to test, but you could try the following.

    In OSD, add a new machine name by associating a system to a MAC address. Create the advert to go to the machine and enable WOL in the advertisement. If that does not work, you could always make it work using SCCM Companion.

    Brian S. Tucker
    The Blogcast Repository - MCSE, MCDBA & MCT
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