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Use Power Management to control, monitor, and manage conservation policies in your deployment.
Power Management Setup Guide
Power Management is policy-driven software for distributed environments. Built on BigFix technology, it allows you to apply conservation policies infrastructure-wide, while providing the granularity to apply power management policies to a single computer.
Setup and configuration
Manage Assumptions
Use the Manage Assumptions dashboard for customizing your deployment through assumptions.
General Assumptions
Define the cost and carbon emissions per kWh that are consumed by your endpoints on the General Assumptions tab in Manage Custom Assumptions Wizard.

Power Management
Use Power Management to control, monitor, and manage conservation policies in your deployment.
- Power Management Setup Guide
  Power Management is policy-driven software for distributed environments. Built on BigFix technology, it allows you to apply conservation policies infrastructure-wide, while providing the granularity to apply power management policies to a single computer.
  - Overview
  - Setup and configuration
    - Quick Start
    - Manage Power Tracking
    - Manage Assumptions
      Use the Manage Assumptions dashboard for customizing your deployment through assumptions.
      - Global Settings
        To access the Global Settings dialog, click the icon located in the top right corner of the Manage Custom Assumptions Tasks Wizard.
      - General Assumptions
        Define the cost and carbon emissions per kWh that are consumed by your endpoints on the General Assumptions tab in Manage Custom Assumptions Wizard.
      - Office Hours Assumptions
        You can set how your organization defines work hours and workdays in the Office Hours Assumptions tab.
      - Hardware Assumptions
        Define endpoint power consumption in Active or Standby mode in the Hardware Assumptions tab.
    - Configure Historical Reporting
    - Configure Client-side Dashboard
      The Client-side Dashboard provides you with individual power footprints. Power Management includes tasks in the navigation tree for enabling and disabling the client-side dashboard.
    - Enable Wakeup
    - Remove previous version
      You can run the previous and current versions of both versions of Power Management simultaneously. However, the new version of Power Management uses different collection techniques. When you remove the old version, your historical data is not transferred.
- Power Management User's Guide
  Power Management is policy-driven software for distributed environments. Built on BigFix technology, it allows you to apply conservation policies infrastructure-wide, while providing the granularity to apply power management policies to a single computer.

General Assumptions

Define the cost and carbon emissions per kWh that are consumed by your endpoints on the General Assumptions tab in Manage Custom Assumptions Wizard.

Click the tab in the wizard to display the following information:

Name
Cost per kWh
Carbon Emissions per kWh
Computers

If you do not have General Assumptions set, then you are using default values. To override the default values and use values specific to your deployment, click New Assumption.

Your electricity provider can provide your cost per kWh of electricity and the amount of carbon released to create each kWh. If you have multiple providers, you can choose to average the values and assign them to all computers. Alternatively, you can create multiple assumptions and assign each assumption to the appropriate computers based on location. The latter approach is more accurate, but it is more time consuming and difficult to maintain over time.

Enter a name for the assumption, cost per kWh, and carbon emissions per kWh. Click Create Task.

On the work panel, click OK and enter your Private Key Password. When the task has gathered the required information, the task window opens as shown in the following image. Click in the Actions box to deploy the action.