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August 12th, 2013 13:00
Wake on LAN for Dell PowerEdge 1950
I am having the hardest time getting Wake on LAN to work. I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 that is running windows server 2008 R2 Datacenter (thank you dreamspark!). Anyways, I don't use the server enough where I want it running 24/7 so I want to be able to sleep it or hibernate it and wake it up remotely when I need to. The server is connected to a cisco 2900 switch and then to a 2651XM router. I am able to remote into the server and I am sure the networking side is working because I use it all the time.
I put the server into hibernate and I don't know if this makes a difference but the server disappears from the mac address table of the switch while it's in hibernation.
I tried using this program: http://magicpacket.free.fr/
And when I go to receive I can send the wake on LAN packet from my computer and the server does reconize it (while its turned on and running that program), but then once I shutdown or hibernate my server it will not wake up unless I physically turn it on. I can't ping it when it is asleep either. The orange NIC led does blink while its off. Any ideas, what am I doing wrong.
I also did check the box to "allow this device to wake the computer" and I didn't see wake on LAN as a bios setting but I read about pressing CTRL-S on the bootup and that took me to another menu where I enabled wake on LAN.
ajk4550
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August 12th, 2013 15:00
Hello, System is not using Hyper-V. I did enable WOL in ctrl-S and that didn't work.
I did try to do 1B but when I go to configure -> Advanced I do not see anything remotely close to wake up capabilities. I made sure the driver was up to date as well. One problem might be, I heard that to do WOL it needs to be in sleep mode instead of hibernate. Slow question but how do I get my server to go to sleep mode. There doesn't seem to be any settings for it in the power management section. Could this be my problem? I'm putting it to hibernate or shutdown?
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August 12th, 2013 15:00
You should be able to enable sleep with the following steps:
1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Power Options.
2. Under the power plan that is configured, click Change plan settings, and then click Change advanced power settings.
3. Expand Sleep, and then modify the sleep configuration settings as appropriate for your requirements.
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August 12th, 2013 15:00
Is the system using Hyper-V? That will disable WOL. Enabling it in ctrl+S should allow the hardware to do it. Did you enable on the NIC in Windows under the advanced tab for the nic properties?