Manually changing Wake on Lan scheduled time.
rlgura
September 22nd, 2008
I have 1 NS server that services computers World-wide.
I'm trying to use Wake on Lan to update computers at night.
The problem is that the WOL task is a scheduled task on the server using server time. Thus, for a 9PM SWD task, it schedules the WOL task for 8:50PM EST (which is 8:50 AM in Hong Kong).
To try to get around this, I broke my SWD into 3 seperate tasks by region, then went into Sheduled Tasks on the NS server and modified the schedule of the NS.WOL task. However, this morning, all the times are reset back to 8:50PM - seems there's a background task that refreshes these....
Anybody have any suggestions on how to work around this?
I'm running NS6.0.6074 (R8) and SWD for Windows 6.1.1049
I don't see a scheduled task for NS.WOL on any of my systems. Where exactly are you configuring this?
Jim Harings
Technical Solutions Consultant
Xcend Group
http://xcendgroup.com
On the notification server itself. When you choose the "Wake on Lan" option in a SWD task, it creates a Windows Scheduled Task on the server named "NS.WOL Task for <Task Name>.{GUID}"
Ok, that explains it. I didn't have a WOL task scheduled (it wouldn't do much on VM anyway). Does it look like it's using a shared schedule? You can view these under the configuration tab, server settings, notification server settings, shared schedules. Does it appear under control panel, task scheduler in Windows?
Jim Harings
Technical Solutions Consultant
Xcend Group
http://xcendgroup.com
The WOL task itself uses a custom schedule, which I can manually change.
I modified the schedule again last Monday, and they appear to be holding so far, so it must be a weekly task that's resyncing these to the SWD task on the weekends.
Yes, it appears under Control Panel, Scheduled Tasks
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