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[Cbpedersen]

Hi all.

i got a problem, as the headline says it regarding WOL and Wisdom.

i got network with alot of clients, and ofcourse alot of VLANS, i have talked to RES supports a few times now, and the only answer i get is to deploy a dispatcher on every singel vlan i got... well, that is not an option for me...

i got some freeware tools that works with "ip directed broadcasts", and i have enabled this in my network.

my question is:

Wisdom can see data about a computer, whether it is offline or online, it knows the mac adresses of all my computers, basicly it knows all the data i need to make a WOL script, BUT where is the database / databases where all this info is??? anyone who can tell me that?

i have looked around, but i havent found it yet... :-(

/Christian Pedersen.

[Starup]

Hi Christian,

When a Wisdom agent connects, it connects to server(s) in the dispatcher list.
It doesn't store the agent's MAC information in the database.

So if you want to store the MAC's - then perhaps you could have a Wisdom job for when agents come online. This job should fire a VBS, PowerShell or other script, that gets the MAC of the agent (think about multiple NICs) - and save the MAC into a database of some kind.

Perhaps you've already thought of this, but this is only way, that I can think of....

Maybe others have better ideas?

Christian, what do you say to what I'm writting?

[Cbpedersen]

well i havent thougt of that....

i will try that, when i got a couple of minutes in spare.

thanks for your advice... :-)

[Starup]

well i havent thougt of that....

i will try that, when i got a couple of minutes in spare.

thanks for your advice... :-)

You're welcome - let me know on how it goes

[Airdeca]

Hi guys,

You don't need an external script to retrieve the MAC address of a RES Wisdom Agent. There's a ready to use task for that called 'Query TCP/IP Properties'. If you schedule this job to all your agents and export the job results to XML you can import it into Excel. You can filter the "val" column on the string "Physical Address" and you have an overview of all your agents with their associated MAC address.

A child can do the laundry (Old dutch saying)

[emaringka]

We have the same problem over here.

Hopefully RES Wisdom would be able to do a direct broadcast WOL by it self in the near future.

We looked at other tools to do the WOL, but then again you need to do a lot of timing.

Schedule to wake up a group of clients with the help of a tool who can do a direct broadcast WOL. Then schedule a Wisdom runbook/project/module.

[pkaak]

Some routers and switches can forward an WOL command to the other vlans. We used to set this with our customers. The WOL command is broadcast on an udp port (it is mentoined somewhere in the kb's.. do not know the right port be head).
That broadcast on that port is being broadcast to other subnets and vlans by the routers. Works like a charm (most off the times).

Placing dispatchers in several vlans is also an option. That way the clients can also find the dispatcher when the auto-search function on the client is enabled.

[Jurjen]

The WOL command is broadcast on an udp port (it is mentoined somewhere in the kb's.. do not know the right port be head).

it's UDP 3163

Edit:

You have to allow broadcast traffic to the desired vlan's and allow the UDP port.

[Airdeca]

I heard from a reliable source that the R&D department of RES Software has been working on a solution for this and will make it available in the next Major Release after serious testing of course.

[RESguru]

There's currently in the 2009 IR1 an option to both specify port and mask

[Airdeca]

And a little birdie told me that it will also be included in SR4.