Overview

Wake-on-LAN enables GFI LanGuard to wake machines from the following states:

• Powered off
• Sleep
• Hibernated

The motherboard and the network interface card of the computer running GFI LanGuard must support Wake-on-LAN. This article guides you on how to set up Wake-on-LAN on a Windows operating system.

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Process

1. Click Start, right-click on Computer and select Manage.
2. From the left panel, expand System Tools and click Device Manager.
3. Right-click on the Network Interface Card and select Properties.
4. From the Power Management tab, select the following options:
   • Allow this device to wake up the computer
   • Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer
     

     NOTE: Magic Packet is the wake-up signal that is sent by GFI LanGuard to the scan target network card.

5. Click OK.

Once the Network Interface Card is configured, run a FULL scan on the client machine. This enables GFI LanGuard to gather the required information from the client machine. For more information refer to Manual scans.

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