'ello Monks!

My goal is to have a Perl script check for a condition in a log file, if it exists hibernate twelve computers. Then at a set time have a scheduled task wake the computers up.

If I manually hibernate one of the machines and have a scheduled task with the 'wake the computer to run this task' box checked, it will indeed wake up at the scheduled time. I planned on using psshutdown to remotely hibernate the win2k machines. Psshutdown does hibernate the machine, however the scheduled task will no longer wake it up.

Searching lead me to part of the windows API, SetSuspendState. Which has me thinking that perhaps psshutdown is setting the DisableWakeEvent to true.

This post shows me how to use Win32::API to hibernate a machine, but I'm assuming it only work locally. Installing Perl on all the machines is not an option.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm at a loss.
Thanks!