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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.
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.

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BigFix 11 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 User's Guide
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.
    - 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

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.

Enable Wakeup includes a task for enabling the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility. This utility is used to wake computers based on the schedule defined in the Schedule Wake-on-LAN wizard. It also sends a wake-up request to any Last Man Standing computers that are shut down.

Enable Wakeup task in the BigFix Power Management navigation tree

In addition to the BigFix Wake-on-LAN technology, BESWolMedic.exe version 1.5.30 or later uses a directed broadcast that does not require Wake-on-LAN forwarders or Last Man Standing computers.

To enable the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility, click the Enable task in the List Panel, and then click in the Actions box of the Task window.

Note: Ensure that RESP API is set up correctly to avoid errors and for the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility to function properly. RESP API is supported by BigFix server version 9.0 and later.

Actions box in the Enable Wakeup task window for deploying the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility

When the utility runs for the first time, the BigFix Server firewall may trigger a network security warning. If network access is not approved, no directed broadcast is issued. The existing BigFix Wake-on-LAN technology will continue to work.