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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.
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:

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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.
BigFix Platform
BigFix Query
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
    - 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 Microsoft 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.
    - Definitions
      This section defines common Power Management terms:
    - Key features
      This section defines the purpose and function of key features of Endpoint Manager Power® Management:
    - Dashboards overview
      BigFix Power Management includes the following dashboards for viewing power settings summaries in your deployment:
  - Use Power Management
    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.
  - Manage wakeup behavior
    Power Management provides Fixlets and Wizards to bring a computer online and take actions and manage the computer at specific times.
  - 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.
  - Frequently asked questions
    In this section, find the list of commonly asked questions and answers related to power management.
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
BigFix MCM

Key features

This section defines the purpose and function of key features of Endpoint Manager Power® Management:

PC Insomnia Prevention: Computers can be set to go into sleep states after configurable amounts of user idle time. The term PC Insomnia is used to describe a situation where applications prevent a computer from sleeping. PC Insomnia Prevention is a mechanism that the BigFix agent uses to monitor user idle time and force the computer to sleep at the appropriate times.
Wake-on-LAN Forwarder (WoLF): Many enterprise networks do not allow broadcasting from different subnets, which makes Wake-on-LAN difficult. To solve this issue, BigFix agents can be designated as Wake-on-LAN Forwarders (WoLFs), which send the Wake-on-LAN packets to nearby computers in the same subnet. This method allows organizations to use Wake-on-LAN without requiring network changes.
Last Man Standing (LMS): Wake-on-LAN technology requires at least one computer in a subnet to be active to serve as Wake-on-LAN Forwarder for other computers. An LMS-designated computer ensures that a computer is always active by resisting shutdowns and by automatically being awakened if powered off.
Power® Management Efficiency: A measure of how efficiently a computer spends its non-active time, whereby Idle Time is considered inefficient and standby is efficient. The formula is: Standby Time / (Standby Time + Idle Time).
Minimum Power® Consumption: The amount of power used by a computer if it is only powered on when in active use and powered off at all other times.
Full Power® Consumption: The amount of power used if a computer was powered on all day without any power management settings enabled.