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Good time to Scan
From: nickd at funkyjesus.org (Nick Drage)
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:18:57 +0100
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 09:51:21PM +0000, d4ncingd4n at gmail.com wrote:
You can turn the machines on with wake-on-lan about 10 minutes prior to scanning. Works well for pushing patches/inventory control also.
Depending on the size of your estate, and apologies for the relatively obvious advice... but *don't* turn all of the PCs back on at the same time, stagger it over a period of a few minutes. Unless you're intentionally testing to see how efficiently your UPS kicks in of course... -- "People are like Slinkies, not really good for anything, but you cant help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs."
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