#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long; use Pod::Usage; use IO::Socket; use Net::Wake; my $VERSION = 0.1; =head1 NAME 'wol.pl' is simple console based script to boot machines!. =head1 SYNOPSIS #to boot a machine. wol.pl --mac '' #to boot multiple machines. wol.pl --mac '' --mac '' --mac ''... wol.pl --man for more details. =head1 DESCRIPTION `wol.pl` is a simple console based script to boot machines remotely. It takes n number of mac addresses as arguments and it gives a boot call to the remote machines in sequence. Obvisouly, the system that you are trying to boot should have appropriate BIOS settings to manage this. Set up Wake-on-lan settings appropriately and then use the script. =head1 PREREQUISITES `wol.pl` depends on the following modules: - C - C - C - C =cut # Set up defaults my $verbose = 0; my $help = undef; my $man = undef; my @macs; GetOptions( 'help' => \$help, 'man' => \$man, 'macs=s' => \@macs); pod2usage (-verbose => 2) if $man; pod2usage (1) if $help or not @macs; Net::Wake::by_udp(undef,$macs[$_]) for (0..$#macs); =head1 AUTHOR ramki =head1 BUGS Please report to the author. =head1 SCRIPT CATEGORIES UNIX/System_administration Networking =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2005 Ramakrishnan S This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.