Hello. In order to make sure our client pc's are updated via windows update, I need to make sure pc's are powered up friday afternoon (when deepfreeze goes into maintanance). In order to do so I thought to use wolcmd.exe, which however requires me to know the mac address of any given client I need booted.
I don't feel any urgent need to go do an ipconfig on all pc's manually, and I don't feel like constantly pinging any address in the dhcp pool to find active pcs. Therefore I'm looking for a piece of software that can run continuously, and lists mac addresses along with netbios names in some kind of plain text file I can manipulate. Or any other piece of software that doesn't need to be run manually every time I want to update the start script.
Would prefer if whatever software to accomplish this would run on windows, but I can install a linux as well.
I don't feel any urgent need to go do an ipconfig on all pc's manually, and I don't feel like constantly pinging any address in the dhcp pool to find active pcs. Therefore I'm looking for a piece of software that can run continuously, and lists mac addresses along with netbios names in some kind of plain text file I can manipulate. Or any other piece of software that doesn't need to be run manually every time I want to update the start script.
Would prefer if whatever software to accomplish this would run on windows, but I can install a linux as well.