Server Wake On LAN

TrueNAS General
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How can I turn on my TrueNAS Scale server remotely? Is there a Wake On LAN (WOL) utility?

  1. How to do this on my home network?
  2. How can I do this from a remote location?
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Thats a function of the hardware / system BIOS. Its not a function of TrueNAS.

So:

  1. You use a WoL program - or manually create a magic packet
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  1. If the motherboard supports WoL there will typically be a setting controlling it in the BIOS. I’d start looking in the power section.
  2. You can, but magic packets won’t survive traversing the public net. The only sane I see is through a VPN tunnel. I would ssh into a box on the target network and send the magic packet from there.
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Log into IPMI… if it is a genuine server board.

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Can even do it from a script with ipmiutil if you have the ipmi accessible to your vpn etc

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How To Wake On LAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fvR4riXSbE

Download WakeMeOnLAN
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wake_on_lan.html

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Thats not true.

You need to enable WOL in Bios yes, but you need also change the driver.

In an old Thread i found it: SOLVED - Enable WOL | TrueNAS Community

You need to add a “init/Shutdown Script” with command: ethtool -s enp3s0 wol g

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After this and reboot it works for a while.

In my case i added the same for shutdown.

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The WOL run after this setting in my case for ~1 Day. After ~24 hours the WOL not work again and i need to start the server directly. I dont know why, but the network Card went offline after ~20 hours with all energy efficiency options off.

Thanks