Wake on LAN

I take care of the computers for a Middle School, and have to start 3 classrooms of 30 machines each every day. I would like to automate this, and have been trying to make WOL work, without too much success. If there is anyone here who is successful with this, I will be happy to detail all my unsuccessful experiments, but it doesn't seem like many people do this with groups of machines, so I won't take the time unless there'e hope of help. I have downloaded the AMD utility and can wake many individual machines, but not a group. Thanks.

 

This may do the trick for you
LanHelper
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4470.html

 

May be this can Help.

Link: Wake On LAN (WOL) - Start a Network Computer Remotely.

 

anyreason you shut them all of everyday? im just wondering because we have 110 puters at my skol and they are always on until the weekends and sometimes in the elementry lab we never go down and shut them off

 

maybe power conservation.

 

if you are running a LAN with a domain is there anyway you can make it run shut down scripts to each computer like once a week like on friday at a certain time?

 

Two reasons for daily shutdown. 1. We are on a tight budget and anything that cuts costs is important 2. We have frequent power outages and being shut down that way tends to mess up the computers.