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Re: Centralized Classroom/Lab Management Software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Steel)
Mon Feb 14 08:58:57 2011
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:56:46 -0500
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From: Chuck Steel <chuck.steel@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Cox, Hannah <hcox@mercyhurst.edu> wrote:
> We are trying to centralize management of classroom and lab computers at our
> Help Desk so that we can power on and update computers remotely. Does anyone
> have suggestions for software that will allow us to centrally manage our
> classroom and lab computers? We are especially interested in software that
> will allow us to startup the computers remotely because all of our classroom
> and lab computers are shutdown at the end of the day.
>
We use Altiris to manage our classroom and lab computers. It will
certainly power up machines, but it does much more than that. We use
it to image machines and deploy updates, as well. If you're really
just looking to power up machines, then there are programs you can use
which will send the wake on lan packet to wake them. There used to be
one called "Magic Packet", but I don't know if it's still out there.
--
Chuck Steel
Dickinson College
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