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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.
Hardware Assumptions
Define endpoint power consumption in Active or Standby mode in the Hardware Assumptions tab.

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.

Hardware Assumptions

Define endpoint power consumption in Active or Standby mode in the Hardware Assumptions tab.

The following fields are displayed:

Name
System Power Draw - Active or Standby
Monitor Power Draw - Active or Standby
Applicability to hardware such as servers or desktops
Computers

If you do not have Hardware Assumptions set, you are using default values. To override default values with values specific to your deployment, click New Assumption.

To effectively set assumptions, you must discover the amount of electricity used by your computers. You can determine this amount by plugging systems into an electricity usage device, such as a Kill a Watt electricity usage monitor. Because power usage varies only minimally per computer model, you might want to check power values for representative models. If you have many computer models, you can choose to average the values and assign them to all computers or create multiple assumptions and assign each assumption to the appropriate computers based on their models. The latter approach is more accurate, but it is more time consuming and difficult to maintain over time.

After clicking New Assumption, an additional row displays at the bottom of the window, where you can manually populate fields corresponding to the new task Name, System Power Draw, Monitor Power Draw, and the applicability to different hardware types. When complete, click Create Task, click OK, and enter your Private Key Password. Click in the Actions box of the task window to deploy the action.