IT/Software/Command Line Applications/wakeonlan

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General

You need to allow this in the BIOS first.

Then the computers need to be kept attached to the network and power.

Having them on a UPS is good.

Configuration

  • There are countless tutorials on how to do this.
  • Making it "persistent" is the tricky bit.
    • Say you are working at home.
    • You want to turn on and update all the computers
    • You can login to the main server, wake up all the desktops and they update.
  • There are several requirements
    • You need to