About 5 years ago, PC motherboard manufacturers implemented a new technology called Wake on LAN (WOL) that lets you remotely wake up PCs by sending a data packet, or magic packet, to them over the network. Products that support Wake on LAN include Computer Associates' (CA's) Unicenter TNG Framework, Hewlett-Packard's HP OpenView and HP Toptools, and IBM's Tivoli TME Network Management System.
Rather than purchase yet another product, however, why not use a script to remotely wake up your PCs? If you use NICs and have PCs that support Wake on LAN, you can take advantage of the SendMagicPacket.vbs and SendMagicPacketWithEvents.vbs scripts. To use these scripts, you need to meet several requirements. In addition, you need to know about the OLE custom control (OCX) that makes these scripts possible and how to customize the scripts.
The Scripts' Requirements
To use SendMagicPacket.vbs and Send-MagicPacketWithEvents.vbs, you must meet three requirements. These requirements involve the PC's hardware and software and the NIC's state. . . .
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