New MarXtar Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk Released

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new MarXtar Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk. In this version we have responded to the large numbers of you that requested enhancements including:

• Use Wake-On-WAN with Scheduled Tasks
• Perform Scheduled Wake-Up and Shut Down
• Only use Windows Machines as Wake-On-WAN Reps
• Automatically make use of Multicast Representatives and Preferred Package Servers
• Greater Logging
• New Broadcast WoL facility

The new version is the Professional Edition and carries a new per console license model. The original Wake-On-WAN functionality is still free and includes the feature fixes listed above.

Visit MarXtar Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk to find out more about this greate new release and to download the free and trial versions.

Wake-On-WAN for LANDesk 8.7 Support Added

Following on from the previous post, we have now updated the download so that includes the LANDesk 8.7 support module. For those of you that tried the LANDesk 8.8 build, just download this using your original download link, uninstall your previous version and install this one.

If you can't find it, just go to http://www.marxtar.com/products/WakeOnWAN/LANDesk-Wake-On-WAN.htm and re-register for the download.

Enjoy!

Will these LANDesk tools stay free?

I've had some emails over the last week or so asking if these LANDesk enhancements are really going to stay free. I wanted to say clearly that the free tools (and some others we are working on) will remain free. That's not to say we won't have some products that are chargeable in the near future though. Our aim is to give poweful utilities to help our fellow administrators but also to provide powerful value-add components for a reasonable cost.

Watch this space...

LANDesk Wake-on-WAN (WoW!)

When I first looked to buy LANDesk as an end user, I was told about the wonderful possibilities of Wake-On-LAN (WoL) by the salesperson. Strangely though, that salesperson didn't mention the barriers to WoL traversing subnets and being a relative IT newbie myself at the time I didn't realise. I was a little disappointed to learn that my right-click Wake Up option didn't do anything outside of the network where I was running my console.

I was pleased when LANDesk added WoL to multicast so that the subnet representatives would perform the wake up, but it was frustrating having to create dummy distribution tasks just to get a machine to wake up.

As we have been building the MarXtar Universe of products I couldn't resist the opportunity to give something to my fellow LANDesk users by creating what we have been calling Wake-On-WAN.

As with Power State Notifier Lite, WoW will be a free plug-in to LANDesk that will allow you to remotely wake up one or more machines even if they are on a remote subnet. We are putting the finishing touches to it now and will be posting more information once it is ready for release.


Hope you all like it!

Mark Star - Managing Director MarXtar Ltd