Send a Wake-on-LAN Magic Packet

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Demonstrates Socket.SendWakeOnLan, which sends a Wake-on-LAN magic packet for a MAC address to a UDP broadcast address and port.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @socket int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Socket', @socket OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    --  Send a Wake-on-LAN magic packet to wake a machine by its MAC address.  The MAC is six bytes
    --  written as hexadecimal, and the packet is sent to the UDP broadcast address and port.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @socket, 'SendWakeOnLan', @success OUT, '000102030405', 9, '255.255.255.255'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @socket, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @socket
        RETURN
      END

    PRINT 'Wake-on-LAN packet sent.'

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @socket


END
GO