This may be more a feature request or generic question that I would like to have answered.
Is there a way to have the UTM shutdown and then startup on a schedule? Like have the UTM shutdown at 12:00 am and startup at 5:00 am?
The advantages of this are multifold:
1. Save energy, thus reduce running costs.
2. Better security, as your network is off while not in use, making it impossible to access during that window of time when it is off.
3. Coil whine and noises from the equipment would be reduced.
4. Less heat generated in the room, therefore cooling costs are reduced while the equipment is off.
Anyways, is there a way to have this done on the UTM? I understand that the UTM is linux-based, so maybe there are utilities that could be installed that could shutdown and power on the machine on schedule.
Or you could have it just shutdown on schedule, and have the BIOS of the computer running the UTM allow wake up from a WOL packet. That way, you could have a dumb WOL device that wakes the equipment up on schedule.
Any ideas on this?
My last thought on this, would be to run a virtual version of the UTM on a hypervisor that can power of the vm schedule. I would want to make sure that it wakes and shuts off the vm in a graceful way. I like this idea as well, because it opens the door to run other services on the network, assuming the host system has enough horsepower.
Anyone with suggestions or thoughts on this?
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