The power management monitoring and wake on LAN facilities

4. Installing a FiDo software

To offer the PMM and WOL facilities ITSS must install FiDo software on their local network. OUCS can install and manage the FiDo software on your behalf (£400 pa), or you can download the FiDo software for free, with limited support from OUCS (see below). If you choose the latter option IT Support Staff must take ongoing ownership of the management of the software.

If you have the time and necessary skills to install and look after your own FiDo software the main steps are:

1. Decide upon hardware. We recommend you install the FiDo software within a VMware environment if possible. If you don't use VMware you can install a the software 'from source', preferably on an existing server to avoid the purchase of new hardware (a machine with 256MB memory will normally work well).

2. Apply for a digital certificate. The FiDo software communicates securely with the central WOL server hosted at OUCS using the HTTPS protocols. To implement HTTPS each installation needs a certificate, at Oxford you must use GlobalSign, the ITSS wiki provides detailed information on how to do.

3. Download and install the FiDo software. The FiDo software is distributed with a number of options:

As mentioned above you must add a GlobalSign certificate to each installation.

4. Register the FiDo software with the central WOL service. Once installed the FiDo software needs to be registered with the central WOL service (managed by OUCS). To do this please send an email to greenit@oucs.ox.ac.uk with the following details:
  • Main contact email address for your IT group
  • Friendly name of the FiDo software e.g. oucs-offices
  • Registered DNS name of the FiDo software
  • IP address that the FiDo software will use
  • Netmask of the subnet where the FiDo software is installed

You will need to wait a few hours while we update the central WOL and registration services with the details of your FiDo software. We will send you an email when this is done. You will then be able to start registering computers to use the WOL service (see next section).

5. Configuring the network. If you have a firewall it must allow communication between the gateway and Central Server on port 8443. If the FiDo software resides behind a NAT, relevant redirections must be set up. Lastly the PMM uses ARP queries so please bear this in mind to avoid issues with IPS/IDS systems.

If you need help with installing the FiDo software please send an email to greenit@oucs.ox.ac.uk.

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