Wake On LAN Proxy not used if device is on different segment

  • 7008858
  • 20-Jun-2011
  • 27-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management
Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management

Situation

Manually selecting the WOL proxy in ZCC does not force the proxy to be used in cases where the device to be woken up is on a separate segment than the WOL proxy device.  This is a problem in VLAN environment where the administrator wants to use the proxy to send the WOL packet.
 
Also, when used the WOL proxy sends to the global broadcast (255.255.255.255) instead of segment broadcast address.

Resolution

For ZCM 11: This is fixed in version 11.1 - see KB 7008746 "ZENworks Configuration Management 11.1 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support

For ZCM 10: This is fixed in version 10.3.4 - see KB 7008244 "ZENworks Configuration Management 10.3.4 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support