Custom Command "Wake on LAN" for selected host? #3583
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I there, thanks a lot for this really ingenious app! As a small company admin sometimes I have to wake up certain machines from remote, which is perfectly possible with your NETworkManager by copying the MAC of the inactive machine from the IP Scanner, switching to the Wake-on-Lan-function and entering it there, together with the net range. I am just wondering if it is not possible to add this function as a Custom Command to the IP Scanner interface. Can I do this somehow? |
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I'd probably add it as a feature request |
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Hi @dbielz, You can create it from the IP Scanner or manually in the UI. 
From the IP Scanner you can just enable the checkbox for Wake on LAN and the MAC is already there: 
Not sure if it makes sense to pre-fill the broadcast address, since the IP Scanner would also allow multiple hosts, ranges, and networks as input. Maybe for obvious cases like scanning a single /24 range. |
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Many thanks, that did not only answer my question fully, but it also enlightened me how profiles are meant to be used in NETworkManager ... |
Hi @dbielz,
thanks for the feedback. If the host is down and you scan it with the IP Scanner, do you get a MAC address of this host?
I think the best would be to scan the range when all hosts are up, and then create a profile for each host, which you can later use to wake up that host when it's down.
You can create it from the IP Scanner or manually in the UI.
From the IP Scanner you can just enable the checkbox for Wake on LAN and the MAC is already there:
Not sure if it makes sense to pre-fill the broadcast address, since the IP Scanner would also allow multiple hosts, ranges, and networks as input. Maybe for obvious cases like scanning a single /24 range.