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Ylianst / MeshCentral

A complete web-based remote monitoring and management web site. Once setup you can install agents and perform remote desktop session to devices on the local network or over the Internet.
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Feature request: possibility to manually modify mac address shown in details of the device #1102

Open tradexsrl opened 4 years ago

tradexsrl commented 4 years ago

Hi , will be possible to add the possibility to manually modify the mac address shown in the details device ? my case is: on our pc we have as main OS openxt and then a windows 7 vm on top of that. with agent installed into the vm , you retrieve the virtual mac address generated by openxt vm configuration and not the real hardware mac address of the net , so is not possible to use the wakeup action. if i can manually modify what is shown , i can supply the real one and do wake up action: immagine

Ylianst commented 4 years ago

Oh, this is interesting. I never expected this case. What I could do is allow you to add an extra "Wake MAC" for a device. I still do what to display the network interface information accurately.

tradexsrl commented 4 years ago

so i can select on which mac address send the wake up action...perfect :-)

Ylianst commented 4 years ago

Yes, or rather, specify an added one. It would work for this. However, I have lots going or, not sure when I will get around to this.

si458 commented 10 months ago

This feature hasn't been implemented but you can use the wol feature from the console tab now! Pick a device thats online and in the same group as ur offline device, and also on the same network for the wol broadcast packets Go into its console tab Then type wakeonlan MACADDRESSWITHOUTCOLONS

tradexsrl commented 10 months ago

I'm not sure to have understood... if I open a console on a device which is online and send the command as you described, it won't work because the MAC address shown is the MAC address of the virtual machine created in openxt hypervisor and not the hardware MAC address of the computer ....

si458 commented 10 months ago

so you would need to manually type in the mac address of the remote computer thats on the host and not the VM, its a work around but it should work for you, if you can already wake on lan using the HOSTS mac address instead of the VM mac address

tradexsrl commented 10 months ago

Also to note that many times all pc are powered off when holidays and I do not install agent on main servers

tradexsrl commented 10 months ago

But I need to have an excel file with all mac addresses related to the computers....instead of finding inside the meshcentral portal

si458 commented 10 months ago

what about the notes section? could you save them in there? you can also now set showNotesPanel: true inside domains in config.json, this will show the notes panel next to the ICON on the device https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/issues/2513#issuecomment-1807181669

tradexsrl commented 10 months ago

As a workaround I rdp into a server and with wakeonlan external tool I send magic packet to the host MAC address taken from an excel file...as you can see is not a straightforward task , instead of those proposed by @Ylianst

si458 commented 10 months ago

as suggested above, save mac into notes of that device, and check notes as a work around https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/issues/1102#issuecomment-1878635496 but sadly development has grinded to a halt at the moment, im in process of working my way through things i can fix/implement like GUI things, but when it comes to database stuff, i tend to stay away at the moment, as this feature would require saving extra information into the database, but this might change in the future tho, you never know, i will keep it open tho, and look into it in the coming months

tradexsrl commented 10 months ago

Many thanks