Compaq W4000 Manual De Usuario

Technical Reference Guide 

 

NOTE:  For the WOL and AOL features to function as described in the following  
paragraphs, the system unit must be plugged into a live AC outlet. Controlling unit  
power through a switchable power strip will, with the strip turned off, disable WOL and  
AOL functionality. 
 

 

The NIC supports the Wired-for-Management (WfM) standard of Wake-On-LAN (WOL) that 
allows the system to be booted up from a powered-down or low-power condition upon the 
detection of special packets received over a network. The NIC receives 3.3 VDC auxiliary power 
while the system unit is powered down in order to process special packets. The detection of a 
Magic Packet by the NIC results in the PME- signal on the PCI bus to be asserted, initiating 
system wake-up from an ACPI S1 or S3 state.  

 

 

Alert-On-LAN (AOL) support allows the NIC to communicate the occurrence of certain events 
over a network even while the system unit is powered off. In a system-off (powered down) 
condition the network function of the 82801 ICH2 component receives auxiliary +3.3 VDC power 
(derived from the +5 VDC auxiliary power from the power supply assembly).  Certain events 
(listed in Table 5-24) will result in the network function of the ICH2 to transmit an appropriate 
pre-constructed message over the network to a system management console. 
 
Reportable AOL events are listed in the following table: 
Table 5–24.   AOL Events 
 

Table 5-24. 

AOL Events 

 

 

BIOS Failure 

 

System fails to boot successfully. 

OS Problem 

 

System fails to load operating system after POST. 

Missing/Faulty Processor 

 

Processor fails to fetch first instruction. 

Thermal Condition 

 

Thermal ASIC reports high temperature. 

Heartbeat 

 

Indication of system’s network presence (sent approximately every 30 
seconds in normal operation). 

 

 

 

The AOL implementation requirements are as follows: 
1.  Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection drivers 3.80 or later (available from Compaq). 
2.  Intel Alert-On-LAN Utilities, version 2.5 (available from Compaq). 
3.  Management console running one of the following: 

a.  HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.x 
b.  Intel LANDesk Client Manager 
c.  Sample Application Console from the Intel AOL Utilities (item #2 above) 

 

 

 

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