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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
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.
Manage assumptions
Customize power consumption calculations in BigFix Power Management by overriding default values for cost per kWh, carbon emissions, hardware power draw, and office hours using the Manage Assumptions dashboard. Accurate assumptions produce more meaningful energy savings reports.
Office hours assumptions
Define your organization's work hours and workdays in BigFix Power Management using Office Hours Assumptions. These settings determine when endpoints are expected to be active, allowing Power Management to accurately distinguish between in-hours and out-of-hours power consumption when calculating savings.

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BigFix 10 Lifecycle Documentation
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 tracking
      Enable and configure Power Tracking in BigFix Power Management to measure how long endpoints spend in Active, Idle, Standby, and Off states — providing the data needed to calculate energy consumption, estimate savings, and generate power usage reports.
    - Manage assumptions
      Customize power consumption calculations in BigFix Power Management by overriding default values for cost per kWh, carbon emissions, hardware power draw, and office hours using the Manage Assumptions dashboard. Accurate assumptions produce more meaningful energy savings reports.
      - Global settings
        Use the Global Settings dialog in BigFix Power Management to configure international currency and weight units for your deployment. These settings affect how energy costs and consumption values are displayed across all power reports and dashboards.
      - General assumptions
        Define the cost and carbon emissions per kWh that are consumed by your endpoints on the General Assumptions tab in Manage Custom Assumptions Wizard.
      - Office hours assumptions
        Define your organization's work hours and workdays in BigFix Power Management using Office Hours Assumptions. These settings determine when endpoints are expected to be active, allowing Power Management to accurately distinguish between in-hours and out-of-hours power consumption when calculating savings.
      - Hardware assumptions
        Define the system and monitor power draw for your endpoints in Active and Standby modes using Hardware Assumptions in BigFix Power Management. Overriding the default wattage values with figures measured from your actual hardware produces more accurate energy consumption and cost savings calculations.
    - Historical reporting
      Power Management supports tracking of historical power data trends and historical reporting groups. To use these features, install the BES Server Plugin Service, configure SOAP API credentials, and enable history tracking on a server.
    - Client-side dashboard
      The Client-side Dashboard provides individual power footprints. Power Management includes tasks in the navigation tree for enabling and disabling the client-side dashboard.
    - Enable wakeup
      The Enable Wakeup feature activates the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility, which wakes computers according to a defined schedule and also sends wake-up requests to Last Man Standing computers. To set up the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility, ensure that BESWolMedic.exe version 1.5.30 or later is used and that RESP API is correctly configured on a BigFix server version 9.0 or later to avoid network security warnings.
    - Remove previous version
      You can run the previous and current versions of Power Management simultaneously. However, the new version of Power Management uses different data 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.
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

Office Hours Assumptions

Define your organization's work hours and workdays in BigFix Power Management using Office Hours Assumptions. These settings determine when endpoints are expected to be active, allowing Power Management to accurately distinguish between in-hours and out-of-hours power consumption when calculating savings.

To define office hours assumptions settings, go to the Systems Lifecycle Domain. From the navigation tree, click Power Management > Manage Assumptions > Manage Custom Assumptions Tasks.

Click the Office Hours Assumptions tab. You can create, edit, and delete assumptions from this tab.

Office Hours Assumptions tab showing Name, Office Hours, Workdays, Outside Office Hours, and Computers columns

The following columns are displayed in the Office Hours Assumptions tab:

Name
Office Hours
- Start Time
- End Time
Workdays
Outside Office Hours
- Workdays
- Weekends
Computers

By default, in the Office Hours column, the Start Time is set to 09:00 AM and the End Time is set to 06:00 PM. The workdays are also set, by default, from Monday to Friday.

Office Hours Assumptions tab showing default start time of 09:00 AM, end time of 06:00 PM, and workdays Monday to Friday

Note: If power tracking is deployed before new office hours assumptions are set, the default start time, end time, and workdays settings are used.

Creating Office Hours Assumptions

To create an office hour assumption, click New Assumption.

Office Hours Assumptions tab with a new row added for entering a new assumption name and hours

A row is added. Enter the name of the new assumption in the Name field. Define the office hours by selecting the Start Time and End Time.

Under the Workdays column, click the All days drop-down menu and click to select the applicable days.

Workdays drop-down menu showing day selection options for the office hours assumption

Click Create Task.
Create Task button in the Office Hours Assumptions tab

Create Task button in the Office Hours Assumptions tab

The Create Task window opens. Click OK to create the task.

Create Task confirmation window for the new office hours assumption

Click in the Actions box of the task window to deploy the action.

Deleting Office Hours Assumptions

To delete existing office hours assumptions, go to the Office Hours Assumptions tab. Select the assumption and click Delete.

Office Hours Assumptions tab with an assumption selected and the Delete button highlighted

Confirm Remove popup asking the user to confirm deletion of the assumption Fixlet

The Confirm Remove popup appears. Click Delete to confirm deletion of the assumption Fixlet, then click OK to confirm removal of the task. The assumption task is now deleted.