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When you setup Power Manager on one of your PC's, you have to decide whether
you want to use that PC to control the powerstatus of other PC's, whether you
want the powerstatus of this PC to be controlled by another PC or both:
If required, you can even install all three components on the same PC.
How Power Manager works
Power Manager uses the network to tell a machine to go into hibernation or to
wake up.
The Power Manager clients (both the Media Center and the regular
Windows version) use a Power Manager specific protocol to tell a machine to go
into hibernation.
But for waking up a machine, they make use of the standard
"wake on lan" protocol. You can read more information about that on
Wikipedia.
It's not always easy to configure the "wake on lan" feature on your PC.
Below you find the steps to get the configuration right:
- Go to the Control Panel
- Open the "Network and Sharing Center"
- Click "Manage network connections" (on the left)
- Double click the "Local area connection"
- Press the "Properties" button
- Press the "Configure" button
- Now you see the properties of your local area network adapter
- Go to the tab called "Powermanagement"
- Check the option called "Allow this device to wake the computer"
- And I advise you to also check the option called "Only allow management
stations to wake the computer"
- Sometime you also have to go to the tab called "Advanced" to enable
"wake on lan" in the (vendor specific) driver of your network adaptor
Using Power Manager
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