Our Clients: SMEs in Nagpur Go-Digital and Adopt Technology across Business Verticals

Over the past few years, OCTAVE Business Management Services has helped many organizations go digital and adopt technology to fulfill their critical gaps and needs. Below are some companies and organizations of repute in Central India.

Some of our esteemed Clients in Central India (Nagpur)

Cybersecurity: How to define basic firewall rules in routers to allow Email Only Access to Desktop/Laptop Clients?

Today, the market is flooded with thousands of variants of home / small office routers and wi-fi devices. These devices again come with multiple settings that need to be taken care of while setting up for the first time. Doing this can be intimidating and time consuming. However at the same time it is important to understand the security features these gateways / routers offer so we can ourselves configure them or ask our ISP / IT support person to do the same which require minimum understanding and effort. Lets take a look at two simple ways:

How to Auto-Start & Shutdown PCs / Laptops? - Part 2 (Wake on LAN using Mobiles & Gateway Routers)

As discussed in our previous post, we can also use WoL (Wake on LAN) Facility to boot the PCs remotely outside our local subnet (read internet!) and also from our mobile phones.

1) Wake On LAN - Sending Magic Packet via SmartPhone:

If your mobile phone is in the same Wi-Fi network as the PC, then its pretty much about downloading any suitable app on your Smartphone. One which I have tried and tested on Android goes by the name of Wake on LAN and its link can be found here.   It asks for the IP Address of the PC and the MAC (Physical address) of the NIC and sends the magic packet via Wifi Network.

 

How to Auto-Start & Shutdown PCs / Laptops? - Part 1

In my previous post we discussed the uses, applications and advantages of auto starting and shutting down PCs. In this post we will discuss how can this be achieved in multiple ways. 

Lets split the problem statement in two parts. 

PART 1 - Starting/Booting a Laptop / PC Remotely 

 A quick google search will give you multiple solutions for booting your machine. The most popular and easiest solution involved is using LAN connectivity and capabilities of the Ethernet card / motherboard and the broadband router. All the latest PCs / Laptop have the necessary hardware to support this functionality. It just needs to be correctly configured. This method is referred to as Wake-on-LAN or WoL in networking parlance.

1. Enable Wake-on-LAN or Wake on PCI card capability in BIOS settings of your motherboard. Usually this setting is found in the PnP/PCi configuration or Power Settings option in BIOS settings.

2. Enable WoL capability via your LAN / network card settings. A typical setting for a gigabit network card looks like this: