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Power Management
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.
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 power profiles
Use power profiles so that computers can go into a low-power state when the user is idle for a predetermined amount of time. You can manage the power profiles for your deployment by using the Create Power Profile Fixlets wizard. Click the wizard from the Manage Power Profiles node in the navigation tree.

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
  - 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.
    - Power savings strategies
      BigFix includes a number of strategies for saving power. The following list includes some common power saving strategies, though it is not comprehensive.
    - Reduce Power Consumption
      The Reduce Power Consumption section gives tools to implement the power savings strategies.
    - Manage power profiles
      Use power profiles so that computers can go into a low-power state when the user is idle for a predetermined amount of time. You can manage the power profiles for your deployment by using the Create Power Profile Fixlets wizard. Click the wizard from the Manage Power Profiles node in the navigation tree.
      - Change current power state
        You can force your computer into a low power mode, such as standby or hibernation. The tasks to do this can be used to immediately force systems into low power mode or schedule low power modes regardless of the power profile or user activity on that particular computer.
      - Manage PC Insomnia
        Some Windows computers fail to enter hibernate or standby mode after the appropriate amount of user idle time, due to PC Insomnia. The Manage PC Insomnia Fixlets force a computer to enter standby or hibernate once the amount of user idle time specified in the power profile has elapsed. Forcing a computer into Standby will allow for faster wake times. Forcing a computer into hibernation causes longer wake-up times, but allows for slightly greater power savings.
      - Manage standby behavior
        Only certain input devices are capable of waking a computer from standby by user interaction, and only if the correct Windows settings are enabled. This task finds all wake capable input devices and enables them to allow Wake-from-Standby.
  - 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.

Manage power profiles

Use power profiles so that computers can go into a low-power state when the user is idle for a predetermined amount of time. You can manage the power profiles for your deployment by using the Create Power Profile Fixlets wizard. Click the wizard from the Manage Power Profiles node in the navigation tree.

The wizard for creating Power Profile Fixlets is organized into parts: selecting a power profile, and setting power profile options. You can choose to create single or multiple power profiles.

Creating single power profiles

To create a single power profile, go to the Single Profile Policy tab. Select a power profile from the drop-down list. You can also select Custom and create a power profile name. Select the Power Profile options.

You can create a one-time action or create a Fixlet that can later be reused. You can also choose to apply the action only if the proposed setting is more aggressive than the existing setting.

Click Create Fixlet. In the Fixlet window, click in the Actions box to initiate the deployment. Click OK when complete.

Creating multiple power profiles

To create a policy with multiple power profiles, go to the Multiple Profile Policy tab. Click the Add Profile button. The Power Settings window opens. Set the time and day settings. Click the All remaining time windows on all days checkbox to set power profiles for the remaining time windows you have not set in the options. This is required to set power profiles by time of day and by day of week.

In the same way as for creating a single power profile, select the power profile and the power profile actions. Click Add to List. The profile is now added to the list. You have the option of creating a one-time action. To create a Fixlet you can reuse, leave the box unchecked and the power profile remains in the list.

Click Create Fixlet. In the Fixlet window, click in the Actions box to start the deployment. Click OK when complete.

Note: The action must be taken as a policy to allow it to keep applying multiple power profiles. In the Take Action dialog, select Policy from the Present drop-down menu to enable the policy action.