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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.
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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

Enable Monitor Standby: Monitors represent a significant portion of power usage for desktops and laptops. Enabling Monitor Standby has minimal end-user impact because most monitors recover quickly from low power mode. Monitor Standby can be easily combined with the System Standby or Power-off strategies below. Use the Power Profile Wizard to change monitor standby policies.
Enable System Standby: As computers use very low power in standby mode, System Standby is considered the best approach to power management. Users must wake computers with a mouse click or keyboard strike before using them, but most computers wake from standby within 10 seconds.
Power-off Computers: You can power off computers at predefined times to save electricity. Powering off computers has the most end user impact, as this method can potentially cause work to be lost.