Overview

With the IBM® 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

The User's Guide describes some of the primary features of Power Management and how to optimize its benefits in your deployment. For information about installing and activating Power Management components in your environment, see the Power Management Setup Guide.

Power Management supports many features, including:

• Managing computer power settings and policies
• Tracking and reporting on computer power usage that includes measuring power usage, potential power savings, and more
• Tracking of computer states, which allows you to create power policies that maximize power savings
• Advanced Wake-on-LAN capabilities (that require no network modifications) including Last Man Standing, Wake-on-LAN Medic, scheduled wake-up times, and more
• Support for PC Insomnia detection and prevention
• A client-side dashboard to view power usage

New Features

Power Management has been updated to include the following features and enhancements:

• More comprehensive Power Consumption summary dashboard
• BES Plugin Service Configuration Wizard
• Analysis properties that track the previous week's power usage during office hours, outside office hours, and weekend
• Multiple power profiles that can be applied to an endpoint by time of day or day of week
• Configurable office hours and weekend time settings in the Manage Assumptions task wizard
• Power profile offers displayed in the client-side dashboard under the Your Power Foot tab
• Additional web reports: Weekly Power Consumption Over Time and Weekly Idle Time Breakdown