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Section

Introduction

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Thispaperprovidesstep‐by‐stepinstructionsforusingWake‐On‐LAN(WOL)

withDell™Servers.

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Definition

Wake‐On‐LANallowsaservertoberemotelypoweredon.Wake‐On‐LAN

technologyresidesinaserver’smanagednetworkinterfacecard(NIC)and/orin

aLAN‐on‐motherboard(LOM)integratednetworkconnection.



WhenaWOLenabledsystemisplacedinapowersavingmode(hibernate,

standby,poweroff,etc...),

themanagedNICorLOMusestheauxiliarypower

sourcetomonitorthenetworkandreceiveawake‐uppacket.Whenawake‐up

packetisreceived,thesystempowersupasnormal.

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Prerequisites

Tools

Thefollowingtoolsarenecessarytohaveonhandbeforeusingwake‐on‐LANon

aDellserver:

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1. DOSbootablefloppydisk,MSDOSversion6.0ornewer,FreeDOSor

DRDOS(APMWOLonly.)

2. IBAUTIL.EXEversion4.02.02.01ornewerforIntelnetworkinterfacecards

(NICs)orIntel‐based

LANsonMotherboard(LOMs).

3. B57UTIL.EXEversion10.11ornewerorB57UDIAG.EXEversion6.04or

newerforBroadcomNICsorBroadcom‐basedLOMs.

4. UXdiag.exeversion1.3.1ornewerforBroadcomNetXtremeIINICsor

LOMs.

5. Ethtool1.8.4orbetterforLinuxWOL(DellServerssupportRedHat

EnterpriseLinux®

andSUSE®EnterprisedistributionsofLinux.)

6. ThelatestBIOSforeachsystemtouseWOL.

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