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posted by Peter Schulz

In a previous post I covered how to integrate Wake On LAN into your workflow, but how many people are currently using Wake On LAN or at least know that the majority of their servers support it?

Do the servers in your Data Center support Wake On LAN technology? Results: (4849 total votes)
Yes, and I currently use it
(961 votes, 19%)
Yes, I believe so but I am not using it
(953 votes, 19%)
No, they only support the hardware vendor's proprietary technology
(923 votes, 19%)
No, they do not support any form of remote power management
(997 votes, 20%)
I have no Idea
(1015 votes, 20%)

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  1. Jul 30, 2008

    Simon Bramfitt says:

    Pete Using WoL as part of an Active Power Management system should not be thou...

    Pete

    Using WoL as part of an Active Power Management system should not be thought of as anything more than a stop-gap solution.  

    Increased adoption of Active Power Management in the data center will increase awareness of WoL's security weaknesses (WoL works at layer 2 and is therefore inherently insecure and open to abuse by anyone with network access) and will likely result in a push to disable it in favor of other more secure solutions.   The SecureOn WoL extension has seen only limited adoption by NIC vendors and enterprise management of SecureOn passwords does not appear to have reached maturity.  Which means that support for hardware vendor's proprietary solutions such as  HP's ILO offering will need to be supported in the near term.

    Regards

    Simon

    1. Jul 30, 2008

      Peter Schulz says:

      Thanks for the feedback Simon. Supporting more advanced power management schemes...

      Thanks for the feedback Simon. Supporting more advanced power management schemes like HP ILO, WinRM, etc. is something we are looking into.

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