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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.
Manage wakeup behavior
Power Management provides Fixlets and Wizards to bring a computer online and take actions and manage the computer at specific times.
Configuration
From the Configuration node of the Power Management navigation tree, you can manage Last Man Standing Fixlets, Wake on LAN Forwarders, and Wake from Standby by Magic Packet options. The sections below highlight these features.
Manage Wake-on-LAN Forwarders
Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (WoLFs) are BigFix Agent computers that forward Wake-on-LAN packets to other computers in the same subnet. There must be at least one powered-on WoLF in a subnet to wake other computers in the subnet.

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.
  - Manage wakeup behavior
    Power Management provides Fixlets and Wizards to bring a computer online and take actions and manage the computer at specific times.
    - Setup
      The Wake-on-LAN Medic utility is a process that runs on the BigFix server. This utility manages Wake-on-LAN scheduling and keeps Last Man Standing computers awake.
    - Schedule Wake-on-LAN
      You can create and maintain scheduled wake-ups using the Schedule Wake-on-LAN Wizard. Scheduled wake-ups run on client local time and do not require the use of Actions or special router configurations to run.
    - Schedule Wake-from-Standby
      You can create and view Wake-from-Standby Scheduling Fixlets using the Schedule Wake-from-Standby Wizard. A computer scheduled to Wake-from-Standby awakens itself at the designated time. This does not require any hardware or network configuration, and is useful for computers that cannot be awakened using WoL.
    - Wake-from-Standby tasks
      To schedule a Wake-from-Standby task, click the Schedule Wake-from-Standby wizard in the navigation tree. From here, you can create new Wake-from-Standby tasks that populate in the Wake-from-Standby Tasks part of the navigation tree.
    - Configuration
      From the Configuration node of the Power Management navigation tree, you can manage Last Man Standing Fixlets, Wake on LAN Forwarders, and Wake from Standby by Magic Packet options. The sections below highlight these features.
      - Manage Last Man Standing
        Last Man Standing (LMS) ensures that computers in a subnet can be awakened using the Wake-on-LAN feature. However, LMS computers must be running all the time, so you must select only one or two computers in a subnet for this designation. When choosing which computers to designate as LMS, select a type of computer that is likely to be running all the time, such as servers.
      - Manage Wake-on-LAN Forwarders
        Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (WoLFs) are BigFix Agent computers that forward Wake-on-LAN packets to other computers in the same subnet. There must be at least one powered-on WoLF in a subnet to wake other computers in the subnet.
      - Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet
        Power Management includes two tasks for disabling and enabling Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet. A Magic Packet, also known as the Wake-on-LAN packet, is a broadcast packet that wakes a computer.
      - Using Intel vPro with Wake-on-LAN Medic to wake up endpoints
        Follow these steps to setup and schedule endpoints to wake up using the BigFix Wake-on-LAN Medic utility with Intel vPro.
  - 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 Wake-on-LAN Forwarders

Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (WoLFs) are BigFix Agent computers that forward Wake-on-LAN packets to other computers in the same subnet. There must be at least one powered-on WoLF in a subnet to wake other computers in the subnet.

All BigFix agents are set as WoLFs when Power Tracking is enabled. BigFix includes heuristics to keep network traffic to a minimum, so all agents can be made Wake-on-LAN Forwarders. Designating all clients as WoLFs provides for wake redundancy by increasing the likelihood that at least one forwarder in each subnet is powered-on and can be used to wake targeted computers.

Power Management includes tasks for designating and removing WoL forwarders. Access these tasks by clicking on Manage Wake-on-LAN Forwarders in the navigation tree and selecting the appropriate task in the List Panel.

The Designate Wake-on-LAN Forwarders task configures selected clients to forward the Wake-on-LAN packet to computers in their respective subnets. To designate Wake-on-LAN forwarders, click in the Actions box.

To remove Wake-on-LAN packet forwarders, click the Remove Wake-on-LAN Forwarders task in the List Panel, and click in the Actions box to initiate the action.