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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
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
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.
    - 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.
      - Disable previous Historical Tracking
        The previous version of BigFix Power Management used a user-defined scheduled task in Windows to run the Store Historical Power Data process. If you previously set up this task, you must disable it after you remove the older Power Management Fixlet site.
      - Unsubscribe from sites
        To unsubscribe from the previous site, go to the domain icons at the bottom of the domain panel and click the All Content domain icon.
      - Remove custom analyses
        The previous version of Power Management used a custom analysis to track power usage that was different for each console user. In the current version, tracking is done with a single analysis in the Fixlet site.
- 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.

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.

Note: Remove the previous version of BigFix Power Management after the new version is installed.