Can Client send WOL if Server off?

[UFGrayMatter]

I was wondering if there is an STVi or other "built in" method of the client sending a magic packet to the server if not on.

I know there are many options out there for WOL, i've even written stuff for Meedio, but I want to be able to launch SageClient from Meedio, and have the client send a WOL Packet if needed.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Ryan

[brewston]

I don't there is anything built in but with SageMC and dynamic menus you can call a VBS script that calls a wol executable with the mac address of the server.

I've also got a script that sends the packet when the client comes out of standby so I rarely use the menu item I added

cheers

Tim

[Sagebrush]

Originally Posted by brewston

I've also got a script that sends the packet when the client comes out of standby so I rarely use the menu item I added

Could you please elaborate on the script that you use and how you get it to trigger from a wake from standby?

Currently, I manually launch a batch file that runs WOL. Your approach sounds a lot more elegant.

[brewston]

Sure, its cobbled together from bits found here and on the net.

Option Explicit
Dim wmiPowerManagementEvent, WshShell, oShell
Const cntEventEnteringWakeup = 7

Set wmiPowerManagementEvent = GetObject("winmgmts:").ExecNotificationQuery("Select * from Win32_PowerManagementEvent")
Do
If wmiPowerManagementEvent.NextEvent.EventType = cntEventEnteringWakeup Then
Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject ("WScript.shell")
oShell.run "c:\\wol.exe 0040ca25cc99"

End If

Loop

Save as monitor.vbs and double click to run it. You won't see anything happening but you look in task manager there is a process called wscript running (useful if you need to kill it as it will let you run multiples!) If you want it to run automatically, add it to the users start group so it gets run on logon. Obviously, you will need to have obtained a copy of wol.exe from the net and saved it in c: for this to work

This is a cut down version of the script. My full one stops sage client and restarts it on wakeup (I had a problem where the mp3 album art was disappearing after wakeup and this was the easiest way to fix it !)

Cheers

Tim

[Sagebrush]

Thanks Tim

I'll give this a try.