Another update to deSleeper finished up today. I've been trying to make it a bit more user friendly. I should have finished a bootstrapper but I got distracted by some other wants... For example a much better way to get your credentials in and a way for you to wake up a system via host name (i.e. mypc.mycompaniesinternaldomainname.com).
The catch to this second feature is that for most PCs it's only possible to resolve a host name to a MAC address while the computer is actually on. What deSleeper does is store a cache of hostname/MAC address pairs so that it can do that resolution when the computer is off, but to make that work it has to search at least once to populate the cache. So if you have your target machine on, send a wake up request with the client that will cache the hostname. Then you can use the hostname with target off. Since this is a new feature, might want to make sure you have the MAC address available just in case though.
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