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Using PDQ-WOL from an external application

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Ronny Schieler

Hello PDQ Community

Is there a way to pass some mac-adresses or hostnames from a commandline to PDQ-Inventory and let PDQ-Inventory do the wakeup-job then? I know pdq uses it's "own" way to do WOL by sending 3 broadcast-udp pakets to the general broadcast address and also 3 directed UDP pakets to the subnet of the targets on ports 9, 12287 and 40000. I like to use that from a commandline (If possible, without first having to extract the required informations from the sqlite database).

Any help would be appreciated.

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    landonchris

    I am not sure if there is a way to kick off the actual PDQ job via a command line, but if it helps, here is just an old PowerShell script that I had laying around which my old boss made. You can modify it to include the other extra ports that PDQ normally uses.

    ##########
#
# Script to send a "magic packet" for Wake-On-LAN
# 1/8/2013
# Required input: Target machine's MAC address in a dash- or 
# colon-separated form, e.g., 00-0C-F1-CA-96-C3
#
[cmdletbinding()]
param (
    [Alias('MacAddress')]
    [String]$macString = $(throw 'MAC address is required'))

$macString = $macString.ToUpper()
$mac = $macString.Split('-:') | % { [byte]('0x' + $_) }
if ($mac.Length -ne 6)
{
   throw 'MAC address must be 6 hex numbers separated by dashes or colons'
}
 
$UDPclient = new-Object System.Net.Sockets.UdpClient
$UDPclient.Connect(([System.Net.IPAddress]::Broadcast),4000)
$packet = [byte[]](,0xFF * 6)
$packet += $mac * 16
 
Write-Verbose ([bitconverter]::tostring($packet))
 
[void] $UDPclient.Send($packet, $packet.Length)

Write-Verbose "Wake-On-Lan magic packet of length $($packet.Length) sent to $macString"
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