Distributed Wake On Lan

[jperryman]

as described in the PDQ article:
https://www.pdq.com/blog/wake-on-lan-wol-improvements-in-pdq-inventory-6/

Distributed Wake On Lan: attempts to contact an online computer in the last known subnet of the target that you are waking up. A command will be sent to that last known computer to wake up the target. This should increase the success rates for those environments where WOL broadcasts (directed or otherwise) are blocked by your routers.

[jperryman]

Thank you kind sir.

[Esben_D]

I've seen this before, It is indeed something that could improve the current WOL that Lansweeper uses. I'll link your topic to the existing WOL improvements feature request.

Currently to send WOL to different subnets you have the following options:

• Configure your routers to allow directed broadcasts.
  
• Install a separate scanning server on each subnet. (This requires a license that allows more than 1 scanning server)
  
• Use VLANs to connect your scanning server part directly to each subnet.