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  • Re: Wake-on-LAN and Microserver Proliant Gen 8

    From SH@21:1/5 to JoeJoe on Thu Nov 3 18:00:22 2022
    On 03/11/2022 17:52, JoeJoe wrote:
    Has anyone managed to make it work?


    I have one sitting quietly in a cupboard for almost 10 years that all
    the machines in the house use for a daily backup - it does a total of 10 minute work per day. Yet it has to stay on 24/7 for that...

    The microserver is connected via a wire to a switch.



    you have to enable Wake on LAN in the bios, also sort out the power
    management settings.

    Then you need an app running on another machine that can send a "magic
    packet" that has the MAC address of the PC you're trying to power up....

    https://www.pdq.com/blog/wake-on-lan-wol-magic-packet-powershell/

    HTH!

    S.

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  • From JoeJoe@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 3 17:52:14 2022
    Has anyone managed to make it work?


    I have one sitting quietly in a cupboard for almost 10 years that all
    the machines in the house use for a daily backup - it does a total of 10
    minute work per day. Yet it has to stay on 24/7 for that...

    The microserver is connected via a wire to a switch.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 3 21:20:00 2022
    Am 03.11.2022 um 17:52:14 Uhr schrieb JoeJoe:

    Has anyone managed to make it work?

    I don't have such a machine to test.
    To make WoL work, the interface must have link, so the link LED is on.
    WoL also must be enabled in BIOS/UEFI.

    Then send a magic packet to it.

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  • From JoeJoe@21:1/5 to JoeJoe on Thu Nov 3 21:50:52 2022
    On 03/11/2022 17:52, JoeJoe wrote:
    Has anyone managed to make it work?


    I have one sitting quietly in a cupboard for almost 10 years that all
    the machines in the house use for a daily backup - it does a total of 10 minute work per day. Yet it has to stay on 24/7 for that...

    The microserver is connected via a wire to a switch.



    Thanks both - I'll give it a try over the weekend.

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  • From jkn@21:1/5 to JoeJoe on Fri Nov 4 03:26:47 2022
    On Thursday, November 3, 2022 at 5:52:30 PM UTC, JoeJoe wrote:
    Has anyone managed to make it work?


    I have one sitting quietly in a cupboard for almost 10 years that all
    the machines in the house use for a daily backup - it does a total of 10 minute work per day. Yet it has to stay on 24/7 for that...

    The microserver is connected via a wire to a switch.

    I'm pretty sure I had it working on a Gen 7 microserver. As mentioned,
    you have to enable it in the BIOS

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  • From Raj Kundra@21:1/5 to JoeJoe on Fri Nov 11 09:58:13 2022
    On 03/11/2022 17:52, JoeJoe wrote:
    Has anyone managed to make it work?


    I have one sitting quietly in a cupboard for almost 10 years that all
    the machines in the house use for a daily backup - it does a total of
    10 minute work per day. Yet it has to stay on 24/7 for that...

    The microserver is connected via a wire to a switch.

    Been doing it for years using "WakeOnLangui"

    If you need a copy, email me.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to Raj Kundra on Thu Nov 17 14:54:11 2022
    On Friday, 11 November 2022 at 09:58:14 UTC, Raj Kundra wrote:
    On 03/11/2022 17:52, JoeJoe wrote:
    Has anyone managed to make it work?


    I have one sitting quietly in a cupboard for almost 10 years that all
    the machines in the house use for a daily backup - it does a total of
    10 minute work per day. Yet it has to stay on 24/7 for that...

    The microserver is connected via a wire to a switch.

    Been doing it for years using "WakeOnLangui"

    If you need a copy, email me.

    Thanks a lot!

    Managed to find a copy online and downloaded it.

    It may not be exactly what I am after - seems to require me to manually activate every time, whilst I am looking for a tool that will do it automatically.
    It did help me to know what to look for, and I did manage to find a couple of free ones that do that online.

    I assume that I will still need to turn the feature on in the BIOS of the MicroServer first?

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