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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 IBM® BigFix technology, it allows you to apply conservation policies infrastructure-wide, while providing the granularity to apply power management policies to a single computer.
Use Power Management
Power Management offers tools like Fixlets and wizards to regulate computer power states and reduce energy wastage from idle computers. Users can control sleep, hibernation, and standby modes through the Reduce Power Consumption node in the navigation tree.
Manage power profiles
Manage power profiles by utilizing the Create Power Profile Fixlets wizard to set computers to low-power mode during idle times. The wizard allows for creating single or multiple power profiles, with options to customize settings and initiate deployment for efficient power management.
Manage PC Insomnia
Manage PC Insomnia with Fixlets that force Windows computers to enter standby or hibernate mode after specified idle time, improving wake times and power savings. Task runs are limited to once in a 15-minute interval and are not applicable on Last Man Standing computers.

BigFix Documentation Homepage
BigFix V9.5 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 user guides in PDF format:
Software Distribution
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 V9.1.4
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 IBM® 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 IBM® 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
  - Use Power Management
    Power Management offers tools like Fixlets and wizards to regulate computer power states and reduce energy wastage from idle computers. Users can control sleep, hibernation, and standby modes through the Reduce Power Consumption node in the navigation tree.
    - Power savings strategies
      BigFix offers power saving strategies like enabling Monitor Standby, System Standby, and powering off computers at specific times. These strategies aim to reduce power consumption efficiently, with System Standby being the most effective method despite requiring users to wake the computer before use.
    - Reduce Power Consumption
      The Reduce Power Consumption section provides tools for implementing power-saving strategies, including a wizard for creating power profile Fixlets and a listing of existing Fixlets in the Manage Power Profiles subnode.
    - Manage power profiles
      Manage power profiles by utilizing the Create Power Profile Fixlets wizard to set computers to low-power mode during idle times. The wizard allows for creating single or multiple power profiles, with options to customize settings and initiate deployment for efficient power management.
      - Change current power state
        Instructions on changing the computer's power state to low power modes like standby or hibernation, either immediately or on a scheduled basis, regardless of power profile or user activity. Includes a task for forcing entry into standby mode.
      - Manage PC Insomnia
        Manage PC Insomnia with Fixlets that force Windows computers to enter standby or hibernate mode after specified idle time, improving wake times and power savings. Task runs are limited to once in a 15-minute interval and are not applicable on Last Man Standing computers.
      - Manage standby behavior
        Managing standby behavior involves identifying wake-capable input devices and enabling them to wake a computer from standby, based on specific Windows settings.
  - Manage wakeup behavior
    Manage wakeup behavior through Power Management tools, including Fixlets and Wizards, to bring a computer online at specific times. Utilize dashboards, Fixlets, and wizards within the Manage Wakeup Behavior node to control wakeup settings, schedule Wake-on-LAN, and Wake-from-Standby tasks.
  - Web Reports
    Power Management Web Reports offer a comprehensive overview of power usage for management and decision-making purposes. Accessible by logging in with a username and password, users can view and assess reports by selecting Systems Lifecycle from the main Web Reports page.
  - Frequently asked questions
    A list of frequently asked questions for users.
Server Automation
Server Automation provides powerful automation. You can use it to sequence automation actions in steps across multiple endpoints.
Profile Management User's Guide
BigFix Remediate
BigFix MCM

Manage PC Insomnia

Manage PC Insomnia with Fixlets that force Windows computers to enter standby or hibernate mode after specified idle time, improving wake times and power savings. Task runs are limited to once in a 15-minute interval and are not applicable on Last Man Standing computers.

Some Windows computers fail to enter hibernate or standby mode after the appropriate amount of user idle time, due to PC Insomnia. The Manage PC Insomnia Fixlets force a computer to enter standby or hibernate once the amount of user idle time specified in the power profile has elapsed. Forcing a computer into Standby will allow for faster wake times. Forcing a computer into hibernation causes longer wake-up times, but allows for slightly greater power savings.

Note: The Force Hibernate in PC Insomnia Conditions task is not run more than once in a 15-minute interval.

Note: The Force Hibernate in PC Insomnia Conditions task is not applicable on computers designated as Last Man Standing.