Deployment Solution

We have a program called Verdiem Surveyor which handles power management (and very well at that).  Because of our network security WOL packets are not allowed to cross between switches.  Thus we cannot use Wake on Lan through Altiris to wake a PC for running a job.  My question... Is there a way to have altiris start a job even if it shows the PC is not on? 

You should be able to use WOL, you would just need to have at least one machine that would be a proxy on each switch/vlan.

Otherwise, if the machine is not on, the task would never execute until the machine checks in.  You might be able to run scripts locally on the deployment server, however, I don't see any benefit to running scripts intended for a machine that is powered off only on the DS server.

if not, then it's a moot point.  WOL proxies are used for just this.

That said, why in DS 6.9 would you even WANT to initiate a job if the system is down?  It wont get to the system and will fail.  DS 6.9 operates in real-time, not with schedules.

Now, if you were using Software Delivery in NS 7.x, that does instigate jobs whether or not the system is on.  It's a nice added feature of the new integration to NS that DS is taking.  Comes at a cost, granted, but still a nice feature.

DS 6.9 does work with scheduling, however, the client machine needs to be powered on or accept WOL.

Unfortunately having WOL proxies will not work for us. Rather, I wont be able to convince the powers that be. 

Basically I needed to find a way to run a script onthe PC that wakes it up using our Verdiem Surveyor client. I know this was a stretch.

I don't know much about this "Verdiem Surveyor" software.  Are you saying that, putting DS aside, you can wake up clients with this software?  If this is a command line utility that runs on another machine, I would imagine you could issue the command from DS (running it locally on the DS server).  After the machine wakes up the next item in your job would kick off then.

The key is you have to find a way to wake up a machine that is in a powered down state, which I don't believe is possible without WOL.

From what I can see on this page, it should be possible.  You just need to find out how to use Verdiem Surveyor to wake up a machine.

http://www.verdiem.com/surveyor/detail.aspx

@Jasonfo

Wish our corporate would let us get WOl proxies also

Run Script Example

.\wolcmd.exe %NIC1MACADDR% %NIC1IPADDR% %NIC1IPNETMASK% 402

Under the second dialog choose 'Locally on the Deployment Server' and uncheck 'Run when the agent is connected' (this is the key to making it work while the machine is offline).

You should be able to adapt this process to meet your needs for your specific utility.

You understand the Aclient is the WOL proxy right? You just enable it. No additional hardware or software is required. Don't enable more than 1-3 machines on each subnet (to prevent excessive packet broadcasts).

We have same job as mentioned above by Brandon. However this does not work for all machines, i couldn't wake up machines that hasn't checked in recently. Also, Wake  up option Power Mgt does not work at all. Any ideas...

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH14508 shows that issue fixed in Altiris DS 6.. we have 6.9 but no luck. Also tried setting up proxy but does not work.

Note that WOL packets won't traverse networks (i.e. different subnets or across routers).  In order to do that you would need WOL proxies on each subnet.