Martin Rothschink, author of the popular Light-Out add-in for WHS v1 and WHS 2011, has written to tell us that he now has a public beta of Lights-Out available and it will also run on Windows 7 or Windows 8 machines. Read on for details.
Martin Rothschink, author of the popular Light-Out add-in for WHS v1 and WHS 2011, has written to tell us that he now has a public beta of Lights-Out available and it will also run on Windows 7 or Windows 8 machines. First of all, what is Lights-Out?
Lights-Out enhances a Windows Server Solution in these areas:
- Power management, to run your server on demand
- Client backup, to run a scheduled backup and use Wake-On-Lan
- Uptime chart, to give a graphical overview of device activity in your network
- Client management, wake, suspend or reboot your client computers
- Mac OS X Support for WHS v1 and 2011!
- Lights-Out Mobile App for Windows Phone 7
- NEW BETA: Lights-Out for Windows 8 as “Home Server”
Lights-Out – The name says it all.
Description
This Add-In is used to put a Windows 8 “Home Server” into suspended mode or hibernation and resume on user defined events.
Mode of operation
Lights-Out monitors several sources for activity. As long as one source signals activity, the server is kept running.
When monitoring detects no more activity, the server is disabled. For more details on monitoring please read the how-to.
Sources selectable for monitoring
- Runtimes on calendar
- Windows Home Server Computers (Clients)
- Network devices (like a Mac, Xbox or streaming clients)
- Backup time window
- Remote access
- Processes on your Windows Home Server
- Files on your Windows Home Server
- CPU load on your Windows Home Server
- Network load on your Windows Home Server
- File shares
- Physical console session (logged into your server using physically attached mouse/keyboard and monitor)
Wake up
A suspended or hibernated server can be resumed using a calendar event. A non active server can be activated using Wake-On-Lan (WOL).
Lights-Out comes with a client application which can be used to start the server when the client boots or resumes.
