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What is it?

The Wake On Lan service, allow us to “wake” remotely an equipment that is connected to wired net.

How can you use it?

The website will require you the user name and password of the UV (the same you use for validating the email account). Basically only naming it as the equipment (as registered). You can start remotely the equipment that have been registered with your name.

What is needed?

For using this service, there are certain requirements which should be meet.

Software and Hardware requirements

First, your equipment should be compatible with Wake On Lan. Currently most equipment includes a network card that allows Wake On Lan. Nevertheless, it is highly likely that this option is deactivated in the BIOS.

BIOS configuration

The wrong configuration of BIOS may disabled your equipment. If you don’t have experience configuring BIOS, you should ask for help to the technician or to the Users Service Centre (CAU)

For activating the Wake On Lan option, you should access, firstly, to the BIOS and activate the Wake On Lan or Wake On PCI option. There are many types of BIOS, so in your equipment it may have other name.

 

Windows 10 Wake On Lan Configuration

For configuring Windows 10 you should follow the next steps:

  1. First, go to the Control Panel and choose System and Security.
  2. In the panel System select Devices Manager.
  3. Select the network card and click the right button on the network card chosen Properties.
  4. In the tab Energy Manager you should activateAllow the device to reactivate the equipment.

Windows note: Due to the network devices drivers, is possible, that the way to do so, changes. In any case you should enable Magic Packet or Wake On Lan.

MacOS Wake On Lan Configuration

For enabling remote start in MacOs you should follow these steps.

  1. Go to System Preferences and select Power Saver.
  2. Enable Turn on the computer for allowing the access to the network.

You should take into account that in the last versions of MacOS the Wake On Lan starts only works when the equipment is in Sleeping mode.

Linux Wake On Lan Configuration

  • You should register as privileged user with sudo
    • sudo- i
  • Create the file /etc/init.d/wakeonlanconfig
    • cd /etc/init.d
    • nano wakeonlanconfig
  • The file should contain the following:
    • #!/bin/bash
    • ethtool -s eth0 wol g
    • exit
  • We provide run permissions and then we added to home
    • chmod a+x wakeonlanconfig
    • update-rc.d -f wakeonlanconfig defaults