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Use Power Management to control, monitor, and manage conservation policies in your deployment.
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.
Overview
With the BigFix® Power® Management solution, IT organizations can enforce conservation policies across the enterprise, while providing granularity that enables application of these policies to a single computer. Specifically, you can monitor, manage, and control the power usage settings on the computers in your network
Key features
This section defines the purpose and function of key features of Endpoint Manager Power® Management:

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.
- 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.
  - Overview
    With the BigFix® Power® Management solution, IT organizations can enforce conservation policies across the enterprise, while providing granularity that enables application of these policies to a single computer. Specifically, you can monitor, manage, and control the power usage settings on the computers in your network
    - System requirements
    - Definitions
      This section defines common Power Management terms:
    - Key features
      This section defines the purpose and function of key features of Endpoint Manager Power® Management:
    - Dashboards overview
      BigFix Power Management includes the following dashboards for viewing power settings summaries in your deployment:
  - Use Power Management
    Power Management provides a suite of Fixlets and wizards to help control computer power states and minimize waste caused by computers running while not in use. You can manage sleep, hibernation, and standby states on your running computers in the Reduce Power Consumption node in the navigation tree.
  - Manage wakeup behavior
    Power Management provides Fixlets and Wizards to bring a computer online and take actions and manage the computer at specific times.
  - Web Reports
    Power Management Web Reports provides high-level summary data for management and decision makers to view and assess power usage in a deployment.
  - Frequently asked questions
    In this section, find the list of commonly asked questions and answers related to power management.

Key features

This section defines the purpose and function of key features of Endpoint Manager Power® Management:

PC Insomnia Prevention: Computers can be set to go into sleep states after configurable amounts of user idle time. The term PC Insomnia is used to describe a situation where applications prevent a computer from sleeping. PC Insomnia Prevention is a mechanism that the BigFix agent uses to monitor user idle time and force the computer to sleep at the appropriate times.
Wake-on-LAN Forwarder (WoLF): Many enterprise networks do not allow broadcasting from different subnets, which makes Wake-on-LAN difficult. To solve this issue, BigFix agents can be designated as Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (WoLFs), which send the Wake-on-LAN packets to nearby computers in the same subnet. This method allows organizations to use Wake-on-LAN without requiring network changes.
Last Man Standing (LMS): Wake-on-LAN technology requires at least one computer in a subnet to be active to serve as Wake-on-LAN Forwarder for other computers. An LMS-designated computer ensures that a computer is always active by resisting shutdowns and by automatically being awakened if powered off.
Power® Management Efficiency: A measure of how efficiently a computer spends its non-active time, whereby Idle Time is considered inefficient and standby is efficient. The formula is: Standby Time / (Standby Time + Idle Time).
Minimum Power® Consumption: The amount of power used by a computer if it is only powered on when in active use and powered off at all other times.
Full Power® Consumption: The amount of power used if a computer was powered on all day without any power management settings enabled.