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Re: is anyone getting energy savings on PCs using WOL or the like
From: Brian Friday <bfriday () LASIERRA EDU>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:04:32 -0700
On May 6, 2008, at 9:08 AM, David Grisham wrote:
As a corporate component of our university we traditionally applied patches and updates during the night to our PCs. This way our clinics and floors did not see interruptions to their workstations during business hours. We would like to go green and turn off these workstations when possible. We would like to start letting our staff turn off workstations & wake them a couple hours before business and apply necessary maintenance. Does anybody have a tool for this process that is understood by the workstation to be authorized and not a network probe that we would be blocking with network tools (e.g. blocking Smurf)? Cheers.-grish David Grisham, Manager ITSecurity, UNMH
Intel has been hyping their vPro technology on laptops and desktops as being capable of doing this securely. The catch of course being that you have to have the hardware which support vPro. In our discussions of doing this we were toying with the idea of blocking all packets except those that came from a specific IT centric address range. That discussion though did not get very far out of the theoretical arena. Brian Friday Manager, La Sierra University's IT: Infrastructure Department Tel: (951) 785-2900 / Fax: (951) 785-2908 Riverside, CA 92515 Email: bfriday () lasierra edu Infrastructure: It is the telephone on your desk, the wires in your walls, the email you check daily, and the network that ties it all together.
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- is anyone getting energy savings on PCs using WOL or the like David Grisham (May 06)
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- Re: is anyone getting energy savings on PCs using WOL or the like Brian Friday (May 06)
- Re: is anyone getting energy savings on PCs using WOL or the like Hull, Dave (May 06)
- Re: is anyone getting energy savings on PCs using WOL or the like Brian K. Doré (May 06)