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Defining Wake on LAN Jobs

You can define a Wake on LAN (WOL_JOB) job to send a signal to a server to turn it on. The job can wake up a remote computer that has been soft-powered-down (ACPI D3-warm state).

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, or Windows.

Required Statements

To define a Wake on LAN job, you must specify the following statements:

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for a Wake on LAN job:

Example: Broadcast the WOL Signal and Complete Immediately

This example broadcasts the WOL signal to the server identified by the 172.16.0.0 IP address and the 00-11-43-73-38-DC MAC address. After the WOL signal is sent, the job completes immediately without verifying whether the signal worked.

AGENT AGENTNME
BROADCAST 172.16.0.0
MAC 00-11-43-73-38-DC

Example: Broadcast the WOL Signal and Ping a Port

This example broadcasts the WOL signal to the server identified by the 172.16.00 IP address and the 00-1E-4F-C1-0F-FE MAC address. After the WOL signal is sent, the agent pings port 7 of the host computer to ensure it is available. If port 7 is available, the job completes successfully; otherwise, it fails. The job uses the default timeout for the ping.

AGENT AGENTNME
WAKEHOST host
WAKEPORTS 7
BROADCAST 172.16.0.0
MAC 00-1E-4F-C1-0F-FE