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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.

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.
    - System requirements
      BigFix Power Management supports various versions of Windows and Mac operating systems, including Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11, and macOS 10.15. Users are advised that Microsoft XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003 have reached end of life, and BigFix no longer provides support for products that have reached their end of support date.
    - Subscribe to the site
      You can subscribe and gather the Power Management site from the License Overview dashboard in the BigFix Management domain.
  - Setup and configuration
    Learn about the initial setup and configuration process for BigFix Power management.
- 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

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.

The Power Management Setup Guide describes the initial setup, configuration, installation, and activation of the BigFix Power Management components. It is intended for BigFix administrators and operators, and evaluators of the product.

To learn about how to use and optimize the Power Management product in your environment, see the Power Management User's Guide.

Power Management supports many features, including:

Managing computer power settings and policies
Tracking and reporting computer power usage, including measuring power usage, potential power savings, and more
Tracking of computer states to create power policies that maximize power savings
Advanced Wake-on-LAN capabilities, 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 where you can view power usage

New Features

BigFix Power Management has extended support to include the following Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions.

Windows 8.1
Windows 10
Windows Server 2016
OS X 10.9
OS X 10.10
OS X 10.11
macOS 10.12
macOS 10.13
macOS 10.14
macOS 10.15