Remotely Power on Networked Computers

This will only work in schools where administrators can turn on PC's remotely, as it has to be enabled in the BIOS, it also may not work on all computers.

First off, I have been intending to do a tutorial like this for a while, once id figured out how to do it. After my long tribulations, Wadham showed me a piece of software which had it all, making this tutorial a lot easier, so kudos!

Required Items:
-SoftPerfect Network Scanner (Vital for this tutorial)
-Access to a school computer connected to the network

Step 1

If you haven't downloaded the Network Scanner yet, do so now. Now move it on to an external device, ready to be used at school.

Once you have the executable, run it, no install is required.



Step 2

In this step we will need to find out what range we should use for, if you know how to use CMD and determine what your current internal IP address is, then you can use that as the base for your range. Otherwise, you can do this...

First off you will need to go to "Options>IP Address>Detect Local IP Range"



Now you must select the interface, use something similar to the following.



Voila, you now have your IP address range discovered automagically, like this.



Step 3

What you will want to do now is start scanning, thats the green button to the right of the IP range, adress' should begin popping up immeadietly. (Leave your scanner running as long as possible before continuing to the next step)

Step 4

Now, we should save our results, so go "File, Save Results", like so...



Choose a location, best to be on our external device, and save your xml file.

Step 5

Right, so now you have a list of devices, this step will show you how to increase the size of that list before performing your mass wake up.

This step is really to be done at a later date to step 4, for example a different lesson, different devices will be on, thus increasing your device list.

Okay, repeat steps 1-4, so you now have a different list, instead of saving though, do the following.

Go to "File>Load Results"...



Then you will want to select the following...



Re-save your file, as shown in the previous step.

Step 6

You should now have a pretty large list, now, choose when to do this step wisely, if you want to make it a bit of a shock, do it when the least amount of computers will be on in your school.

Load your file, as already shown in the previous step.

Select all the devices in your list, you can do this by pressing "CTRL + A" or manually selecting them.



Now, right click the list "Wake on Lan> Send Wake-on-Lan signal" like so...



Ta da! Your finished, as a side note, if you would like to add extra IP ranges, click this button...


Thanks for reading