Lights-Out monitors several sources for activity. As long as one source signals activity, the server is kept running. When the monitoring detects no more activity, the server is disabled.

• Runtimes on calendar
• Windows Home Server Computers (Clients)
• Network devices (like a Mac, Xbox or streaming clients)
• Backup time window
• Remote access
• Processes on your Windows Home Server
• Files on your Windows Home Server
• CPU load on your Windows Home Server
• Network load on your Windows Home Server

A suspended or hibernated server can be resumed using a calendar event. A shut down server can be activated using Wake-On-Lan (WOL). Lights-Out comes with a client application which can be used to start the server when the client boots or resumes.

The Add-In visualizes the activity of the selected sources. So you can easily identify what keeps your server running.

To reduce the risk of data loss, the server is never put into sleep during an active backup operation or a backup cleanup. You can define services, which are stopped on suspend and restarted after resume. The DriveExtenderMigrator always belongs to this list of services. Additional services like a mail server can be added.

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