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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.
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 macOS versions.

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Welcome to the BigFix Lifecycle documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use BigFix Lifecycle.
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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 macOS versions.
  - Top use cases
    BigFix Power Management supports a range of use cases including reducing energy costs through power policies, tracking and reporting power consumption, scheduling Wake-on-LAN for off-hours maintenance, detecting PC Insomnia, and enabling employee self-service through the client-side dashboard.
  - Quick start
    Get BigFix Power Management up and running in four steps: verify system requirements, subscribe to the Power Management site, deploy Quick Start Fixlets, and enable Power Tracking and Wake-on-LAN.
  - 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. Note that Windows 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 site
    Subscribe to the BES Power Management Fixlet site from the License Overview dashboard in the BigFix Management domain to gain access to the analyses, Fixlets, and tasks required to deploy and manage BigFix Power Management across your endpoints.
  - Setup and configuration
    Configure BigFix Power Management by enabling power tracking, setting up Wake-on-LAN, defining power consumption assumptions, and configuring historical reporting — all from the Setup and Configuration node in the BigFix console.
- 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.
Application Control
BigFix Application Control provides a robust framework for managing application usage within an organization. It allows administrators to define policies that dictate which applications can or cannot be run on endpoints, thereby enhancing security and compliance.
Server Automation
Server Automation provides powerful automation. You can use it to sequence automation actions in steps across multiple endpoints.
Virtual Endpoint Manager
HCL BigFix Virtual Endpoint Manager (VEM) enhances BigFix with centralized, unified endpoint management for hybrid cloud and data center environments, spanning virtual machines and physical endpoints. VEM delivers real-time endpoint visibility, policy-driven automation for configuration and compliance remediation, and consistent security controls to streamline IT operations, reduce risk, and strengthen regulatory compliance.
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

BigFix Power Management 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 macOS 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, operators, and product evaluators.

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 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