Remote Power Control and Monitoring of Cross-Platform Devices Using Magic Packets Across Network Boundaries
Christian von Arnim, Evelyn Dalkowski, Tobias Bodamer, Ziya Selim, Carsten Ellwein, Andreas Wortmann · 2024
This paper compares online device discovery and remote startup and shutdown solutions for an enterprise network. As some of for these solutions do only work in a local network and the enterprise network consists of several subnetworks with different firewalls setting, a concept to communicate securely across subnetworks is required. For an evaluation, a prototype is implemented using Wake-on-Lan for startup, Address Resolution Protocol for online detection and Secure Shell for shutting down. Bridged MQTT-brokers are used to communicate across subnetwork with a service in every subnetwork. The central hosted prototype is able to switch on or off computers remotely in every subnetwork.