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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.
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.
Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown
The Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown report provides a breakdown of average daily activity states such as Active, Idle, Standby, and Powered off. It enables users to evaluate power policy changes, identify areas for power savings, and compare improvements over different days, requiring historical power tracking to be enabled. Selecting the current date for comparison may lead to longer report generation times due to pre-calculated historical data.

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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.
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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
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.
  - 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.
    - Model Power Savings
      This report helps calculate potential power savings by applying different power profiles to your deployment based on current usage patterns, allowing for the creation of what-if scenarios for implementing power policies. The results are based on the actual power state history of each agent over the last two weeks, providing an accurate projection of potential savings.
    - Power consumption over time
      The Power consumption over time report illustrates the average computer power consumption over a defined period, comparing costs or savings against a baseline cost from the start date. It is beneficial for assessing historical savings and monitoring the effectiveness of power management policies, requiring Historical Power Tracking to be enabled for access.
    - Weekly Power Consumption Over Time
      The Weekly Power Consumption Over Time report displays the average weekly power consumption data per computer, showcasing savings compared to the initial week. The report includes a chart detailing the breakdown of power consumption in terms of cost, power, and carbon, along with a table summarizing total consumption and savings by group.
    - Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown
      The Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown report provides a breakdown of average daily activity states such as Active, Idle, Standby, and Powered off. It enables users to evaluate power policy changes, identify areas for power savings, and compare improvements over different days, requiring historical power tracking to be enabled. Selecting the current date for comparison may lead to longer report generation times due to pre-calculated historical data.
    - Weekly Idle Time Breakdown Over Time
      The Weekly Idle Time Breakdown Over Time report displays the weekly idle time breakdown per computer over a specified time frame and indicates the reduction in idle time compared to the initial week. Historical power tracking must be enabled for the comparison function to work, and selecting a new week is necessary if no historical data is available.
    - Power Management settings
      The Power Management settings report displays the percentage of computers with enabled power management settings on a given day and allows for comparing improvements between different days. Enabling historical power tracking is necessary for the comparison feature to function, and selecting the current date for comparison may result in longer report generation times due to pre-calculated data for previous dates.
    - Wake on Web
      This report sends Wake-on-LAN requests to a list of computers and provides alerts if the WoL setup is not configured properly for waking them up.
  - Frequently asked questions
    A list of frequently asked questions for users.
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Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown

The Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown report provides a breakdown of average daily activity states such as Active, Idle, Standby, and Powered off. It enables users to evaluate power policy changes, identify areas for power savings, and compare improvements over different days, requiring historical power tracking to be enabled. Selecting the current date for comparison may lead to longer report generation times due to pre-calculated historical data.

The Power Management Daily Activity State breakdown report displays a breakdown of the average day by activity state. The activity states are Active, Idle, Standby, and Powered off. You can use this report to evaluate changes you make to your power policies. For example, if many computers have high idle times, you set a Standby power policy to save significant power. It can also be set to compare improvements between two different days. The comparison function requires that historical power tracking is enabled.

Note: If you select the current date as the compare against date, the report might take significantly longer to generate, as previous dates are pre-calculated.