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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
Learn about the initial setup and configuration process for BigFix Power Management.
Manage Assumptions
Use the Manage Assumptions dashboard for customizing your deployment through assumptions.
Office Hours Assumptions
You can set how your organization defines work hours and workdays in the Office Hours Assumptions tab.

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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
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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
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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 Mac OS X versions.
  - Setup and configuration
    Learn about the initial setup and configuration process for BigFix Power Management.
    - Quick Start
      Enable and configure Power Management by subscribing to the Power Management Fixlet site and following basic configuration steps in the BigFix console. The Quick Start subnode under Setup and Configuration offers analyses and Fixlets for adjusting Wake-on-LAN, Power Consumption, Standby, and Power Tracking settings, which can be accessed through the List Panel for deployment.
    - Manage Power Tracking
      Manage Power Tracking in the Setup and Configuration node involves configuring, enabling, and updating Power Tracking capabilities, offering optional tasks for use during the configuration process.
    - Manage Assumptions
      Use the Manage Assumptions dashboard for customizing your deployment through assumptions.
      - Global Settings
        To access the Global Settings dialog, click the icon located in the top right corner of the Manage Custom Assumptions Tasks Wizard.
      - 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
        You can set how your organization defines work hours and workdays in the Office Hours Assumptions tab.
      - Hardware Assumptions
        Define endpoint power consumption in Active or Standby mode in the Hardware Assumptions tab.
    - Configure Historical Reporting
      Power Management allows for tracking historical power data trends and configuring historical reporting groups by installing the BES Server Plugin Service, configuring SOAP API credentials, and enabling history tracking on a server.
    - Configure Client-side Dashboard
      The Client-side Dashboard provides you with individual power footprints. Power Management includes tasks in the navigation tree for enabling and disabling the client-side dashboard.
    - Enable Wakeup
      Enable Wakeup involves enabling the Wake-on-LAN Medic Utility to wake computers according to a defined schedule, including Last Man Standing computers. To set it up, ensure that BESWolMedic.exe version 1.5.30 or later is used and that RESTAPI is correctly configured on BigFix server version 9.0 or later to avoid network security warnings.
    - Remove previous version
      You can run the previous and current versions of both versions of Power Management simultaneously. However, the new version of Power Management uses different 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.
Server Automation
Server Automation provides powerful automation. You can use it to sequence automation actions in steps across multiple endpoints.
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.
CVE Search dashboard
BigFix CVE Search dashboard and Web Report are available as part of the CyberFOCUS site.
BigFix Remediate
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Office Hours Assumptions

You can set how your organization defines work hours and workdays in the Office Hours Assumptions tab.

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.

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.

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

Creating Office Hours Assumptions

To create an office hour assumption, click New Assumption.

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.

Click Create Task.

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

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 the Delete.

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