Configure Historical Reporting

Power Management allows users to view historical power usage trends and capture data for reporting purposes. Tasks under Configure Historical Reporting include installing the BES Server Plugin, configuring historical reporting groups, and enabling history tracking on a server for efficient power data management.

Power Management provides power information based on the current state of computers in your deployment. You can see historical data trends for power usage and capture historical data to address reporting needs.

The Configure Historical Reporting subnode under Setup and Configuration includes tasks for installing the BES Server Plugin and enabling historical tracking on a server, and a task for configuring historical reporting groups.

Install BES Plugin Service

The BES Server Plugin service facilitates communication and automation of the BigFix server and Web Reports components with server-side utilities. Several BigFix applications, such as Power Management, require this plug-in service to fully use the available functions.

You must install the BES Server Plugin service before you use the historical reporting feature.

Configure BES Plugin

Before configuring, ensure the BES Server Plugin is installed or updated as applicable.

If the BES Plugin Service has not yet been installed, use the Install BES Server Plugin Service task to install BES Plugin. or
If the BES Plugin Service has already been installed, use the Update BES Server Plugin Service task to update.

To configure BES Plugin, use the Configure SOAP API credentials for BES Server Plugin Service task. To do this:

Go to Setup and Configuration > Configure Historical Reporting > Install BES Server Plugin Service.
In the description section, click the link Configure SOAP API credentials for BES Server Plugin Service. The following screen appears.
Under SOAP API Configuration, fill in the following fields:
- Web Reports User name
- Web Reports Password
- Confirm Password
- Web Reports URL
Click “here” to execute action.

This task performs validation on the user name and password using the web report URL before executing the action. If the web report URL is not accessible from the console machine, the validation fails; however, the task still gives the option to proceed.

Enable History Tracking

To enable History Tracking on a server, click the appropriate task from the navigation tree. Click in the Actions box of the task window to enable the Store Power Data Utility.