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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.

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.
    - 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.

Setup and configuration

Learn about the initial setup and configuration process for BigFix Power Management.