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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.
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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

You must enable the Wake-on-LAN Medic so that Wake-on-LAN features work correctly.

Use the Setup task to install the latest version of the Wake-on-LAN Medic utility. Click this task from the navigation tree. When the Task window opens, review the description and click in the Actions box to initiate the utility.

Note: Ensure that RESTAPI is set up correctly to avoid errors and for the Wake-on-Lan Medic Utility to function properly.

If Wake-on-LAN Medic utility is not enabled, the Enable Wake-on-LAN task might not be relevant.
If the Wake-on-LAN Medic utility is enabled, the scheduled Wake-on-LAN feature will not work.

RESTAPI is supported by BigFix server version 9.0 and later.