[K12OSN] WOL in fl_teachertool for clients--works

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 1/28/07, Robert Arkiletian <robark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/28/07, Barry Cisna <brcisna at eazylivin.net> wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> >   I'm sure you are right. The best setup for waking clients would be ina
> > cron job at say 7:45am each day of school. I just thought it would be
> > handy to have an " option" in fl_tt to enable teachers to start the thin
> > clients as well,say for instance if another teacher came in to use their
> > room and shut all the PC's off.
> > Question: how would I "group" pc's to be ether-wake(ed)? For
> > example,gather all MAC addresses in room1 , all MAC addresses in
> > room2,etc. Could I do a cron for
> > ' ether-wake -file room1 '
> > ' ether-wake -file room2 '
> > ,, to turn on ONLY room1 thin clients
> > ,, to turn on only room2 thin clients ?
>
> Okay then you must have one k12ltsp server for more than 1 room
> (Multiple room setup). In this case you would have to use the
> File->Dispay-MAC-Addresses.
>
> 1) collected all macs into fl_teachertool.maclist (File->Write-mac-addresses)
> 2) print this maclist file
> 3) (login to every machine) and run File->Display-mac-addresses
> 4) walk around ticking off which macs addresses are in which room
> 5) copy/paste the maclist into fl_teachertool.conf re-arranging
> according to room name
> (see example setup in conf file)
> 6) Use this modified python script below

I forgot: use the room name as a command line argument
ex:  #wol-script.py  library

>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import os,sys
>
> reading=False
> macfile=file('/etc/fl_teachertool/fl_teachertool.conf','r')
> for x in macfile:
>    if (reading==True):
>       if ( x[:4]=="room"):
>          reading=False
>       else:
>          os.system("ether-wake "+x)
>          os.system("sleep 1s")
>    if (x[5:-1]==sys.argv[1]):
>       reading=True
> macfile.close
>
> However this script will not tolerate spaces in front of a mac or room
> description as fl_tt does. So it would have to be formatted as such
>
>
> room=library
> 00:10:4B:23:47:BA
> 00:10:4B:23:41:9D
> 00:60:08:C6:08:97
> 00:60:08:C6:01:71
> room=302
> 00:10:4B:23:48:A8
> 00:10:4B:23:47:88
> 00:60:08:C6:02:20
>
> Once again, test this as I have not.
> --
> Robert Arkiletian
> Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
> Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
> C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/
>


-- 
Robert Arkiletian
Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada
Fl_TeacherTool http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/Fl_TeacherTool/
C++ GUI tutorial http://www3.telus.net/public/robark/