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Remote Wake Up And Shut Down

I leave my Raspberry PI connected to my main ups, it has the lowest power consumption so it
will stay up the longest and then use it to control the power of the other systems. I use
ssh and samba client to perform remote shut downs and then wakeonlan to turn on systems.
Wake On Lan
To wake up a system it has to have a physical lan connection. As far as I know and as far as I have researched you cannot do wake on lan via wireless cards. However you can use a media bridge to connect a system(s) over wireless and maintain wake on lan compatibility.
First you have to install the client
To wake the system up you need to know the mac address of the system. In linux you can use
"ifconfig" and look for the HWaddr section, in windows go to start->run, enter cmd, when the
DOS window comes up do a "ipconfig /all" and look at the physical address section. The
following example will use a mac address of 00:11:32:10:26:04
Shortly after this command the computer should start. If it does not check your BIOS
settings to see if you have wakeonlan enabled. Most systems have it enabled but some
have it disabled. Generally the settings are found under the power management section.
Remote Power Off
There are two systems that we need to look at to powering off, linux and windows. To turn off a linux system the easiest way is to ssh into it and then run the shutdown command. You can use ssh so that you dont need to put in a password to login to the other system. For windows you can use samba to run a remote shutdown command. Some windows sytems (vista to current) need to have two edits done to the systems to enable remote shutdown.
POWERING OFF LINUX SYSTEMS:
To enable ssh without a password we first generate a ssh key...
Then copy that key to the system(s) we want to shut down
Now to shutdown the remote host run the following command...
POWERING OFF WINDOWS SYSTEMS:
To shutdown windows system from a linux client you need to install the needed
client tools
For windows vista and older systems you need to make some edits to enable
remote power off.
Go to Start, type services.msc into the Start menu and press Enter.
Locate the “Remote Registry” service in the list
right-click it and select Properties.
From the properties window, set the Startup type to Automatic and
click the Start button to launch the service.
Turn Firewall Off altogether or allow remote registry through
Go to Start, type regedit into the Start menu and press Enter.
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Create the DWORD LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy with the value "1"
Reboot the windows system to make the changes take effect...and now you can
shutdown the remote windows system using the following command, replacing the
uppercase values with your own.