[crazy4laptops]

I have a large network of macs scattered throughout a good sized building and im looking for an efficient way to be able to turn them all on/power on from one location

With PC computers, they have this nifty thing called wake-on-lan which allows 'magic' packets sent from a wakeup caller program to power up the computer

Is there a way to set up WOL for a mac?

Let me be specific about wake on lan- Wake on lan boots/starts up the computer after being shut down, not waking from sleep

thanks
-C

[smax013]

crazy4laptops, on 08 October 2009 - 10:15 AM, said:

I have a large network of macs scattered throughout a good sized building and im looking for an efficient way to be able to turn them all on/power on from one location

With PC computers, they have this nifty thing called wake-on-lan which allows 'magic' packets sent from a wakeup caller program to power up the computer

Is there a way to set up WOL for a mac?

Let me be specific about wake on lan- Wake on lan boots/starts up the computer after being shut down, not waking from sleep

thanks
-C

I do not believe it is possible, but I could be wrong.

About the closest that I know if is you can schedule "boots" (or reboots or shutdowns) using the Energy Saver control panel in the System Preferences...or leave the computer on and have it sleep and do a "wake on lan" under the network settings.

[yorgus]

There is such a thing on Macs. It is called "Lights Out Management" (LOM) It is not supported AFAIK on anything except XServe and MacPro hardware. Prior to my migration to 10.4 (Tiger) I was able to use ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) version 2 to communicate with some eMac labs I support, and wake them up using a command in ARD. When I upgraded to ARD 3, I lost that capability. ARD 3 says that it can wake computers, but it gives a failure message on anything other than the server hardware. Like you, I could use this feature nearly daily if it were still available. I think the WOL feature is still found in the hardware of Apple network chipsets; they have chose to disable it.

You can search the Apple Knowledgebase for LOM.

This post has been edited by yorgus: 23 October 2009 - 11:59 AM

[crazy4laptops]

yorgus, on 23 October 2009 - 11:58 AM, said:

There is such a thing on Macs. It is called "Lights Out Management" (LOM) It is not supported AFAIK on anything except XServe and MacPro hardware. Prior to my migration to 10.4 (Tiger) I was able to use ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) version 2 to communicate with some eMac labs I support, and wake them up using a command in ARD. When I upgraded to ARD 3, I lost that capability. ARD 3 says that it can wake computers, but it gives a failure message on anything other than the server hardware. Like you, I could use this feature nearly daily if it were still available. I think the WOL feature is still found in the hardware of Apple network chipsets; they have chose to disable it.

You can search the Apple Knowledgebase for LOM.

yes and yes, i should have mentioned that i know about LOM, i use it on occasion for my large collection of 10 Xserves

im wanting to find something equivalent to LOM for iMacs and mac minis