Table of Contents

Network Control

System startup

  1. Register a batch file with startup commands in XFCE (GUI) –> Session and Startup
  2. Add commands to start the clients as VM or external client through wakeonlan:
    wakeonlan xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
VBoxManage startvm client

Shutdown by UPS

  1. Register a batch file with shutdown command in /etc/nut/upsmon.conf
    SHUTDOWNCMD "/home/user/batch/shutdownall"
  2. Install NUT in all linux clients and connect them to the NUT server
  3. Make sure you can ssh as root into every client which needs to be shutdown manually with keypair, and without entering any password. Add a line for each client to this batch file:
    ssh root@client "shutdown -h +0"

Shutdown manuall

  1. Create a batch file with shutdown commands for each client:
    ssh root@client "shutdown -h +0"