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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.

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.

Manage Assumptions

Use the Manage Assumptions dashboard for customizing your deployment through assumptions.

BigFix calculates power consumption by measuring the amount of time a computer spends in Active, Idle, Standby, and Off power states, and factoring in 'assumptions' for hardware power draw and endpoint cost per kWh. Power Management uses default values based on experience and research with typical computers manufactured in the last few years and average CO2 and electricity costs. You can choose the default values or you can override them with known values specific to your computers and costs.

The Manage Assumptions dashboard can be found in the navigation tree under Setup and Configuration/Manage Assumptions/Manage Custom Assumptions Wizard.

Note: Managing Assumptions is an optional feature in BigFix Power Management. If you do not set custom assumptions, default assumptions are used.