[pve-devel] [PATCH #1752 pve-manager 1/1] [PATCH #1752 pve-manager] Impl basic wake on LAN

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > Yes - that is exactly my point (it makes no sense to have Sys.PowerMgnt on node).
> 
> It makes fully sense. They way this inteded to work is like: We have three nodes
> A, B, C. C is powered off. An user has the Sys.PowerMgmt permissions on only Node
> C. As it's powered off he naturally cannot do the API call to this node, so the
> user post it to any other node (lets say A), *but* with node C in the API path,
> e.g.:
> 
> POST /nodes/C/wakeonlan (send over Node *A*)
> 
> Node A thus gets a call to it's wakeonlan code path but with "C" as value for the
> node parameter, and thus it checks correctly if you can power manage node C.
> I tested this, it works.

Ah, OK - got it (I thought it can wake up arbitrary MACs, but this is not the case). Sorry
for the noise ...