The target computer is in standby, hibernate or shutdown, with power reserved for the network card.Wake-on-LAN (WOL) allows a computer to be powered on or awakened from standby, hibernate or shutdown from another device on a network. With Wake-on-LAN activated, a network administrator can wake up sleeping machines at any time in order to perform on-demand software patches or updates. Another way to ensure that sleep settings do not interfere with the distribution of administrative software updates (such as Windows security patches and antivirus definitions) is to utilize Wake-on-LAN features.
