WOL

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Wake-on-LAN is a standard that allows a computer to be turned on or woken up by a network message called "Magic Packet".

Amahi supports waking up machines that have a dynamic or statis DHCP leases in your network, under Setup > Networking.

These machines need to be setup properly by enabling WakeOnLan in their BIOS of the machine. This setting has quite a few names in BIOS's out there. Here's a couple of them (find the one you need in the user manual of your motherboard/system):

  • MAC Resume From S3/S4
  • MACPME Power Up Control
  • Power On By Onboard LAN
  • Power Up By Onboard LAN
  • Resume by LAN
  • Resume By WOL
  • Resume on LAN
  • Resume on LAN/PME#
  • Wake on LAN from S5
  • Wake Up On LAN
  • WakeUp by Onboard LAN
  • WOL (PME#) From Soft-Off

To try it, go to Setup > Networking > Static IPs and unfold the row for the device that you want to wake up.

More information on Wake on LAN and how it works ...

If you're trying to wake a remote Linux system, and it's not working, try executing this command on the remote Linux client:

ethtool -s eth0 wol g