R3 Wake on LAN manual packets

[bbunjevac]

Afternoon everybody, I have began setting up Wake on LAN for our primary site (and only site). I understand the setup for this is divided into 3 main aspects/parts:

1. SCCM 2007 Server must be enabled for Wake on Lan
   

• Enabling feature under Site Management
  
• Hardware Inventory must be enabled
  
• Client machines are running the R3 build of Config Manager Client
  

2. Workstation settings

• BIOS setting for WOL must be supported and enabled
  
• NIC Card must support WOL and must be enabled to receive Magic Packets in its devices->drivers tab under power management
  

3. Switch configuration

• Enable IP directed broadcasts (only if using subnet directed broadcasts)
  

 

With this I will be able to push driver/windows/software updates while a group of systems in a collection is set to sleep between lets say 11PM to 7AM the next morning...(while they are woken up at 5AM to install these patches)

My question is:

If a user (that has absolutely NO access to the SCCM server) has his system asleep and he has to troubleshoot a critical issue at 2AM in the morning because of a phone call...what are his ways of waking up his system?

The only thing I can think of is using a 3rd party Wake on LAN agent (but that'd be counter productive...)

Any insights guys? Would be greatly appreciated.

[Jorgen Nilsson]

Hi,

There is no such feature in SCCM 2007, the only way would be to configure an advertisement to run for that machine, then it will wake up.

Could be a doable workaround..

Regards,

Jörgen

[bbunjevac]

Thank you for the quick response...I guess my fears were right, I have to go third party, do you know of any free magic packet/WOL software available?