How an NS Agent becomes a Wake on LAN (WOL) Relay Agent

Products

• Management Platform (Formerly known as Notification Server)

Issue/Introduction

 

Resolution

Question
How does a computer with an Notification Server Agent installed become a Wake on LAN relay agent?

Answer
In order to become a Wake on LAN Relay Agent for a particular subnet, the following criteria are used, in order:

1. Candidacy: Order of priority to even become a Relay Agent is:
1. Notification Server
2. Package Server
3. Computer with the Altiris Agent installed.
   
   If any of the above are met, then the following is added to it:
2. When was the last configuration event?
3. When was the last Basic Inventory sent?

Service Pack 3 notes: All NIC' reported by TCPIP inventory are eligible; however, if a machine has a NIC that uses either 0.0.0.0 as the default gateway, or does not have a gateway, it will be excluded from the list of candidate relay agents.