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I'm in dire need of an RDP "mouse jiggler"! When you have a security-martinet IT team, but need to read stuff on two connections while building on the 3rd, the two you aren't activating time out in like 5 minutes. IT says "As defined".

So, I need a way to send a jiggle or something to the inactive servers so that they think they are doing something and don't time out!

in reply to Blaise

@Blaise

Are these physical servers in your possession? Do they have wake on Lan set to true in the BIOS. Make sure you have ICMP turned on and the ports enabled and setup a cronjob to send them a ping. You can open the port for only a specific machine if openning ICMP to the Internet would be an issue.

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in reply to Unus Nemo

@Unus Nemo Unfortunately, I have no physical access and limited security rights on most of the machines I work on. The power and automotive industries are super-big on compartmentalized security.