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Anti-Virus - Wake on LAN

Hi

I'm trying to set up a scheduled scan, which I would like to wake the workstations for. At the moment I have been setting a scheduled scan on the server, and then use the remote facility on shutdown.exe to turn the PCs off after a certain time. Ideally I'd like to set a scheduled scan to wake the PCs early in the morning.

If I set up a scan via the Enterprise Console, is there a way to set the scheduled task to wake all the PCs on LAN? I have a feeling that the 'Wake the computer to start this task' option on the Windows Scheduled Task manager on the server won't filter down to the workstations.

I'm aware I could set a scheduled scan as a group policy on the server - is there a guide how to do this? Also, the 'Last scheduled scan completed' field only updates when the scan has been scheduled from the server. I'd like this to be updated when the scan is completed, so I can keep track of any PCs that may not have been scanned - which rules out setting the scheduled scan on each PC locally as far as I know.

Any assistance would be much appreciated, many thanks.

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  • Hello fmm,

    SEC doesn't set the task on the computers directly, it just passes the desired settings to the endpoint which then creates the task when the policy is processed. Furthermore a scheduled task doesn't turn on the computer when it's powered off, it just can wake the computer when it's sleeping - so even if this setting could be passed to the clients it wouldn't have the desired effect.

    There are several options but only outside SEC: 

    1. WOL
    2. Intel's AMT
    3. ACPI - RTC (Real Time Clock)

    1. and 2. require additional software (there are free products), 3. can be tricky if the OS writes to the RTC

    Christian

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  • Hello fmm,

    SEC doesn't set the task on the computers directly, it just passes the desired settings to the endpoint which then creates the task when the policy is processed. Furthermore a scheduled task doesn't turn on the computer when it's powered off, it just can wake the computer when it's sleeping - so even if this setting could be passed to the clients it wouldn't have the desired effect.

    There are several options but only outside SEC: 

    1. WOL
    2. Intel's AMT
    3. ACPI - RTC (Real Time Clock)

    1. and 2. require additional software (there are free products), 3. can be tricky if the OS writes to the RTC

    Christian

    :37739
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