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Power Management
Use Power Management to control, monitor, and manage conservation policies in your deployment.
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.
Wakeup behavior
Power Management provides Fixlets and wizards to bring computers online and manage wakeup behavior at scheduled times, including Wake-on-LAN scheduling, Wake-from-Standby configuration, and Wake-on-LAN Medic setup.
Configuration
Configure Last Man Standing Fixlets, Wake-on-LAN Forwarders, and Wake from Standby by Magic Packet to maintain endpoint availability and reduce power consumption in complex enterprise networks.
Wake by Magic Packet
Power Management includes tasks for enabling and disabling Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet, which configures Windows network adapter settings to allow a targeted Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet to wake a computer from standby.

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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.
- 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
    With the BigFix® Power® Management solution, IT organizations can enforce conservation policies across the enterprise, while providing granularity that enables application of these policies to a single computer. Specifically, you can monitor, manage, and control the power usage settings on the computers in your network.
  - Key features
    This section defines the purpose and function of key features of Endpoint Manager Power® Management:
  - Top use cases
    Explore the top use cases for BigFix Power Management, 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 end-user self-service through the client-side dashboard.
  - Quick start
    Get measurable power savings in four steps: review your baseline, deploy a power profile, remediate non-compliant endpoints, and enable Wake-on-LAN for off-hours management.
  - Definitions
    This section defines common Power Management terms, including power states (Active, Idle, Standby, and Power Off), Wake-on-LAN, Wake-from-Standby, and power efficiency metrics.
  - 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 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.
  - Manage power consumption
    Power Management provides a suite of Fixlets and wizards to help control computer power states and minimize waste caused by computers running while not in use. You can manage sleep, hibernation, and standby states on your running computers in the Reduce Power Consumption node in the navigation tree.
  - Wakeup behavior
    Power Management provides Fixlets and wizards to bring computers online and manage wakeup behavior at scheduled times, including Wake-on-LAN scheduling, Wake-from-Standby configuration, and Wake-on-LAN Medic setup.
    - Setup
      The Wake-on-LAN Medic utility is a process that runs on the BigFix server. This utility manages Wake-on-LAN scheduling and keeps Last Man Standing computers awake.
    - Schedule Wake-on-LAN
      You can create and maintain scheduled wake-ups using the Schedule Wake-on-LAN Wizard. Scheduled wake-ups run on client local time and do not require the use of Actions or special router configurations to run.
    - Schedule wake from standby
      You can create and view Wake-from-Standby Scheduling Fixlets using the Schedule Wake-from-Standby Wizard. A computer scheduled to Wake-from-Standby awakens itself at the designated time. This does not require any hardware or network configuration, and is useful for computers that cannot be awakened using WoL.
    - Wake-from-standby tasks
      Wake-from-Standby tasks allow computers to wake themselves at a scheduled time using the Windows Task Scheduler, without requiring Wake-on-LAN hardware or network configuration. Use the Schedule Wake-from-Standby wizard to create and manage these tasks.
    - Configuration
      Configure Last Man Standing Fixlets, Wake-on-LAN Forwarders, and Wake from Standby by Magic Packet to maintain endpoint availability and reduce power consumption in complex enterprise networks.
      - Last Man Standing
        Last Man Standing (LMS) ensures that computers in a subnet can be awakened using the Wake-on-LAN feature. However, LMS computers must be running all the time, so you must select only one or two computers in a subnet for this designation. When choosing which computers to designate as LMS, select a type of computer that is likely to be running all the time, such as servers.
      - WoL forwarders
        Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (WoLFs) are BigFix Agent computers that forward Wake-on-LAN packets to other computers in the same subnet. There must be at least one powered-on WoLF in a subnet to wake other computers in the subnet.
      - Wake by Magic Packet
        Power Management includes tasks for enabling and disabling Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet, which configures Windows network adapter settings to allow a targeted Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet to wake a computer from standby.
      - Intel vPro with WoL Medic
        Follow these steps to set up and schedule endpoints to wake up using the BigFix Wake-on-LAN Medic utility with Intel vPro.
  - Dashboards overview
    BigFix Power Management provides two dashboards for monitoring power usage: the Power Management Health Checks dashboard for troubleshooting and optimization, and the Power Consumption Summary dashboard for aggregate usage and efficiency reporting to identify savings opportunities and track progress against energy targets.
  - Web Reports
    Power Management Web Reports provides high-level summary data for management and decision makers to view and assess power usage in a deployment.
  - Troubleshooting
    Find procedures for collecting diagnostic data for Power Management support cases, enabling debug logging for the Wake-on-LAN Medic, and troubleshooting Wake-on-LAN issues.
  - FAQ
    Answers to common questions about how BigFix Power Management calculates power savings and CO₂ estimates, manages carbon reporting, handles power settings on servers, and supports up to 250,000 endpoints.
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
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Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet

Power Management includes tasks for enabling and disabling Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet, which configures Windows network adapter settings to allow a targeted Wake-on-LAN broadcast packet to wake a computer from standby.

These tasks change the Windows network adapter setting from “Allow this device to wake the computer” to “Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer”. These settings are available in the network adapter properties in Windows.

Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection Properties dialog open on the Power Management tab, showing the Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer option checked under Allow this device to wake the computer

Access these tasks by clicking Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet in the navigation tree and selecting the appropriate task in the List Panel.

Power Management navigation tree showing Wake from Standby by Magic Packet node selected under Configuration, with 2 Fixlets listed

Wake from Standby by Magic Packet task list showing Disable Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet and Enable Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet tasks for Windows

To disable or enable Wake-from-Standby by Magic Packet, click the appropriate task and click in the Actions box of the task window to initiate the action.