KIXtart scripts years ago to do this with SUS.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~equator/suswol/version2/version2.htm
I imagine many of his techniques could be adapted to fit to whichever autom=
ation system you're using.
S
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The Key School, Annapolis Maryland
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> Would it be possible to use the wake-on-LAN features built into most
> network adapters to restart the workstations for updates and other
> activities? I may be dating myself, but I remember back in the old days
> of Novell ZENworks setting up policies to start the workstations, image
> them, and then shut them back down in the middle of the night,
> unattended. Has anyone tried something like this today? Thanks,
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> Our school's policy for shutting down computers is to leave the
> computers on from Monday through Thursday (turn monitors off) and shut
> down on Friday at end of the day and extended holidays. Thus the
> computers stay powered on overnight (but logged off) during the week so
> that we can run scheduled tasks such as updates and scans during the
> users' down time.
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> How do you handle the ability to be good stewards of users' productive
> time and be good stewards of power consumption?
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> Kathy D. Moore
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