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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.
Setup and configuration
Learn about the initial setup and configuration process for BigFix Power management.
Enable Wakeup
Enable Wakeup involves enabling the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility to wake computers according to a defined schedule, including Last Man Standing computers. To set it up, ensure that BESWolMedic.exe version 1.5.30 or later is used and that RESTAPI is correctly configured on BigFix server version 9.0 or later to avoid network security warnings.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix 10 Lifecycle Documentation
Welcome to the BigFix Lifecycle documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Lifecycle.
BigFix Platform
BigFix Query
Lifecycle overview
BigFix Lifecycle is single-agent, single-console technology that provides near real-time visibility into the state of endpoints.
Lifecycle guides in PDF format
Following is a list of links to the BigFix Lifecycle guides in PDF format:
Software Distribution
Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
OS Deployment
BigFix OS Deployment, which is part of the BigFix Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy new workstations and servers throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution saves time and money, enforces a standardized and approved image, and reduces risks associated with non-compliant or insecure configurations.
Remote Control
BigFix Remote Control application helps to communicate between different components, clients, and endpoints within BigFix environment.
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.
  - Overview
    The Power Management Setup Guide covers the setup, configuration, and activation of BigFix Power Management for administrators, operators, and evaluators. It includes features like managing power settings, tracking power usage, creating power policies, Wake-on-LAN capabilities, and PC Insomnia detection. BigFix Power Management now supports additional Windows and Mac OS X versions.
  - Setup and configuration
    Learn about the initial setup and configuration process for BigFix Power management.
    - Quick Start
      Enable and configure Power Management by subscribing to the Power Management Fixlet site and following basic configuration steps in the BigFix console. The Quick Start subnode under Setup and Configuration offers analyses and Fixlets for adjusting Wake-on-LAN, Power Consumption, Standby, and Power Tracking settings, which can be accessed through the List Panel for deployment.
    - Manage Power Tracking
      Manage Power Tracking in the Setup and Configuration node involves configuring, enabling, and updating Power Tracking capabilities, offering optional tasks for use during the configuration process.
    - Manage Assumptions
      Use the Manage Assumptions dashboard for customizing your deployment through assumptions.
    - Configure Historical Reporting
      Power Management allows for tracking historical power data trends and configuring historical reporting groups by installing the BES Server Plugin Service, configuring SOAP API credentials, and enabling history tracking on a server.
    - Configure Client-side Dashboard
      The Client-side Dashboard provides you with individual power footprints. Power Management includes tasks in the navigation tree for enabling and disabling the client-side dashboard.
    - Enable Wakeup
      Enable Wakeup involves enabling the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility to wake computers according to a defined schedule, including Last Man Standing computers. To set it up, ensure that BESWolMedic.exe version 1.5.30 or later is used and that RESTAPI is correctly configured on BigFix server version 9.0 or later to avoid network security warnings.
    - Remove previous version
      You can run the previous and current versions of both versions of Power Management simultaneously. However, the new version of Power Management uses different collection techniques. When you remove the old version, your historical data is not transferred.
- 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.
Server Automation
Server Automation provides powerful automation. You can use it to sequence automation actions in steps across multiple endpoints.
Profile Management
Profile Management is a WebUI-based feature of BigFix Lifecycle. It provides Security Administrators the capability to define and deploy security policies to Windows 10 and macOS devices.
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM

Enable Wakeup

Enable Wakeup involves enabling the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility to wake computers according to a defined schedule, including Last Man Standing computers. To set it up, ensure that BESWolMedic.exe version 1.5.30 or later is used and that RESTAPI is correctly configured on BigFix server version 9.0 or later to avoid network security warnings.

Enable Wakeup includes a task for enabling the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility. This utility is used to wake computers based on the schedule defined in the Schedule Wake-on-LAN wizard. It also sends a wake-up request to any Last Man Standing computers that are shut down.

As well as the BigFix Wake-on-LAN technology, BESWolMedic.exe with versions 1.5.30 or later use a directed broadcast that does not need Wake-on-LAN forwarders and Last Man standing computers.

To enable the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility, click the Enable task in the List Panel, and then click in the Actions box of the Task window.

Note: Ensure that RESTAPI is set up correctly to avoid errors and for the Wake-on-Lan Medic Utility to function properly. RESTAPI is supported by BigFix server version 9.0 and later.

Your BigFix Server firewall might prompt a network security warning when the utility is run for the first time. No directed broadcast is issued if the permission to access the network is not approved at your BigFix server. The existing BigFix Wake-on-LAN technology will continue to work.

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