Hello GSS development folks, I have a request for future development post HF3.
I just started using GSS 3 with the release of HF3 (and autmotion folders as a replacement for the virtual partition). SO far, so good, but I've only done some basic stuff so far and I'm beginning to absorb the learning curve of possibilities.
One item that has caught my attention is the way GSS3.0 manages WOL vs. the 2.5 system. It appears that GSS3 looks for an active agent on a local subnet to relay the WOL packets (proxy WOL) form the server. It looks like in order to do so the (Altiris) agent needs to be pre-configured to act as a WOL proxy, no more than 2-3 computers recommended per subnet, and of course one of them has to be up-and-running.
In he 2.5 console WOL was a 'no brainer' for us ...create a task involving WOL, identifiy a computer or group of computers and execute. Beautiful.
Do you know if there is a way I can configure a switch or router to relay do the job of the agent, I can certainly give that a try. I guess I would need to know the type of packets sent from the GSS server (and\or the WOL standard used) so my network folks could maybe do a reconfig for forwarding.
Thank you.
-->Mark S.