Hello everyone,
there one thing that prevents me from buying a personal license for Lights-Out.
Within the 30 days evaluation period I wasn't able to nail down that stupid auto-wake immediately after standby. (not every standby)
I run a lynxpoint/haswell combo with a Intel CT-1000 nic. Only magic packets to the nic's mac are allowed to wake the computer from sleep.
Eventlog essentially says nothing as it doesn't know what got the server up from sleep. (wake source: unknown)
Hybrid Sleep is off, Wake Timers are off, wake_armed reports the nic only. (as intended)
First I was eager as I read the manual that there is something written down about that issue.
The next moment I lol'd hard because of the answer. "yaa meeh maybe thats a driver issue or there is sth misconfigured with your nic."
I never ever read such a unsatisfying support answer.
After a few days I switched the LO action to "shutdown" otherwise my disks would went to crap by now because of countless spin-ups.
There is certainly something wrong the way LO puts the server to sleep. Its monitoring the configured sources and if there is nothing going on, it forces the server to sleep.
Unregarded there IS something that would keep the server alive.
Now I switched LO to sth where I can chose whether force to sleep or not. If the server is keeping up, I can have a look what keeps him alive and nail that down compared to force him to sleep and then getting nothing out of the reason why it wakes up immediately after going to sleep.
Actually I like LO with all that fancy interface. However I would like to see some change within that standby issue. Maybe with a feature set that shows up what keeps the server alive even it's not configured in the monitored sources. I think this is not overstated for an add-in that costs almost half of my entire home server license.