Mac remote power up/down

[Andris]

I am looking for proper shutdown/startup over LAN. The rest of the museum systems do this, but they are all PC. I could put the macs to sleep, but I feel better about having a full restart everyday.

[emilianomorgia]

I feel better about having a full restart everyday.

If you want to restart your macs every day you have to set it to do that .

Go to system preferences

then Power Managament my os it's in italian , it the lamp in the center of the windows ,

then Scheduler .

see ? there you can set at what time the mac start and shut .

then CTRL+CLICK catalyst icon in the Dock , there set LUNCH AT START UP .

In cat Set SEND FULL SCREEN AT START UP .

I did not try it with catalyst , i don't know what version you are using , but some Cat release may not allow the mac to power off . If so , try to download the lasted Cat release ,

There you go ! Every day the Mac start in the morning and shut in the night .

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[emilianomorgia]

only xserve can be turned on via network . this feature it's called (LOM) "lights-out management" and it's only avalaible on xserve .

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[samsc]

there is software called WakeOnMAc - which sends the correct commands over the network to wake a computer from sleep:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30394

not all computers support this, and i dont believe it can be done over wireless.

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the energy saver control panel supports timed shut down and wake schedules in the "schedules" options.

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there might be additional 3rd party solutions but i dont know

[samsc]

there also seems to be this:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos...wakeonlan.html