CentOS - Oct 2010 - Why WOL? ( WAS: Re: Getting Wake on lan to work )

On a semi-related subtopic,

Why do I want WoL? What concrete examples are there where it's useful?

I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded me.


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Drew

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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Drew <drew.kay at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On a semi-related subtopic,
>
> Why do I want WoL? What concrete examples are there where it's useful?
>
> I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded
me.
You want to VNC or SSH into a remote workstation that happens to be asleep.

>I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded
me.
You need to do maintenance on hardware and you don't want it running
wasting power or it happen to be off such as the case with many client boxes?

You need to start a node and you don't want it running wasting power while
you don't need it?

You need to do * and you don't want it running wasting power while
you don't need it?