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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.
Reduce Power Consumption
The Reduce Power Consumption section gives tools to implement the power savings strategies.

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.

Reduce Power Consumption

The Reduce Power Consumption section gives tools to implement the power savings strategies.

In the Reduce Power Consumption node, the Manage Power Profiles subnode includes a wizard for creating power profile Fixlets and a listing of the Fixlets already created.