Wake on LAN

[fspa9686]

Hello Nation!

Noticed an older Wake on LAN policy that we have here in our Jamf Pro is returning errors. The command that the policy pushes is systemsetup -setwakeonnetworkaccess on and this is the Result of the command:
2022-03-25 10:57:04.301 systemsetup[90262:4178974] ### Error:-99 File:/System/Volumes/Data/SWE/macOS/BuildRoots/533514bb11/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/Admin/Admin-911/InternetServices.m Line:379
setwakeonnetworkaccess: On

My first guess was that the computers that were getting the error may have the setting already enabled, but after unchecking the Wake for Network box in the power settings and redeploying the policy to a device to test, it still returned the same result. When resorting to Google-Fu, outside of using a homebrew pkg or pearl, I mostly saw others use the same command as myself to enable wake on network. Did the newer macOS updates change anything that I am missing that would affect this, or is there any other method that doesn't involve homebrew packages/commands that I can use to see a better result.

Thanks in advance!

-Frank S.

[Hugonaut]

@fspa9686 

I recommend using a configuration profiles. Under the Energy Saver payload you can select "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access" - You will want to modify all of the other settings in this payload as well to match what the end users expect or what your preferred managed settings are.

 

This checks the box inside System Preferences -> Battery -> Power Adapter (Depicted below) if on MacBook.

 

[Duke78]

Is this method still working for you for MacOS 14.4? Thinking about using this for some network carts we want to purchase.

[fspa9686]

Hey Duke!

Based on this article from Apple, it looks like Sonoma still supports this. Keep in mind that when it comes to MacBooks, unless my brain is full of air, Macs can natively wake from sleep over the network and NOT wake on LAN from shutdown. That would probably need dedicated software like LogMeIn or TeamViewer (not 100% on TeamViewer)

[SMR1]

We use Rapid7 for OS hardening. We have wake for network access disabled and when we were running Ventura, we were at 100% compliant, but now that we updated to Sonoma, we're 0%. Our config profile is still showing the option unchecked, not sure why it wouldn't work on Sonoma.