Power Consumption Summary dashboard

The Power Consumption Summary dashboard provides a comprehensive view of your deployment's power usage, including aggregate consumption, PM Efficiency Rating, average day activity state breakdown, power profile settings distribution, and trends in powered-on computer counts.

The Power Consumption Summary dashboard captures the following information:

  • Aggregate Power Usage
  • Average day breakdown of the activity states (Idle, Active, Standby, Powered off)
  • Power Management (PM) Efficiency Rating
  • Idle Time breakdown for last week
  • Total tracked computers and computers removed from calculations
  • Power profile settings
  • Average Statistics
  • PM Efficiency Rating
  • Powered on computers

Aggregate Power Usage

The Aggregate Power Usage section displays the overall power used by your deployment and compares it with your estimated Minimum Power Consumption. The section shows the different scenarios of your power usage, in terms of power, cost, and carbon for various computer types in your deployment.

The following image shows the Aggregate Power Usage section:
Aggregate Power Usage section of the Power Consumption Summary dashboard showing a color-coded power spectrum with current usage at 87%, three usage scenarios (A, B, C), and a potential savings table with power, cost, carbon, cars removed, and acres of trees planted

In the power spectrum, the letters A, B, and C correspond to usage scenarios that are described on the left side of the Aggregate Power Usage section.

Minimum Power Consumption
The amount of power used when computers are powered on only when users are active, as opposed to idle, standby, or hibernate modes, and powered off at all other times.
No Idle Time Outside Office hours
The amount of power used when there is no idle time outside office hours. Power usage is calculated by converting idle state to standby state.
No Idle Time During Weekends
Occurs when there is no idle time during weekends. Power usage is calculated by converting idle state to standby state.
You can also view potential savings in the table found under the power spectrum.

Daily average breakdown of the activity states

This section shows the amount of time the average computer spends in various power states in an average day. The computers can be in Idle, Active, Standby, or Powered off power states. Move the mouse pointer over the pie chart sections to see the values for each power state. You can also view the Average Day Breakdown values in pie chart, graph, or tabular form.
Note: Ensure that REST API is set up correctly to avoid results that are not accurate in the Power Consumption Summary dashboard and the Power Consumption Analysis result. REST API is supported by BigFix server version 9.0 and later.

Updated Aggregate Power Usage section showing current power usage at 42% on the spectrum with Weekly view selected, and a potential savings table for scenarios A, B, and C showing kWh, cost, and carbon values

PM Efficiency Rating

The Efficiency Rating measures the total amount of user idle time that is spent in the standby power state. The lower the rating, the more opportunity an organization has to save power. The rating is calculated as follows: standby time / (standby time + idle time).

Average Idle Time breakdown for last week

Shows the weekly idle time breakdown per computer over a selected period of time.

Total tracked computers and computers removed from calculations

This table captures the distribution of computer types such as laptops, desktops, and servers, in the deployment, and computers excluded from power calculations due to errors and insufficient data. Click the values in the System column to see details of the endpoints under a particular computer type.

Power profile settings

The Power Profile Settings displays the distribution of the following power management settings in your deployment:

  • Computers with system standby enabled
  • Computers with monitor standby enabled
  • Computers with hard drive spindown enabled

Average Statistics

Daily power consumption of an average computer in your deployment.


Idle Time Breakdown for Last Week screen

Powered on computers

The Powered on Computers section shows the number of computers that were powered on during various periods. The graph displays the following settings:
Minimum
Shows computers that were on continuously through the whole interval.
Maximum
Shows computers that were powered on at least once during the interval.
Average
Shows computers that were on more often than off during the interval.
The graph displays trends of when users turn off their computers throughout different intervals: hour, day, week, or month.

Powered On Computers graph
Note: The Powered On Computers graph cannot be filtered.