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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.
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
Dashboards overview
BigFix Power Management offers dashboards like Power Management Health Checks and Power Consumption Summary to view power settings summaries in your deployment.
Power Management Health Checks dashboard
The Power Management Health Checks dashboard offers troubleshooting and optimization checks for Power Management Deployments, organized into Setup, Historical Power Tracking, and Wake-on-LAN sections. Users can drill down into individual health checks to view results and resolutions for failing checks, expanding each item for detailed information.

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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
    - System requirements
      BigFix Power Management supports various Windows and Mac versions, including Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11, and macOS 10.15. Microsoft XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2003 are no longer supported, with BigFix ceasing support for products at their end of life. Users with extended support from Microsoft are advised to contact their HCL account representative for further assistance.
    - Definitions
      This section defines common Power Management terms such as Active power state, CO2 Emissions, Idle power state, Power off state, Power States, Price per kWh, Standby power state, Wake-on-LAN, and Wake-from-Standby.
    - Key features
      Key features of Endpoint Manager Power Management include PC Insomnia Prevention for managing user idle time, Wake-on-LAN Forwarder (WoLF) to enable Wake-on-LAN across subnets, and Last Man Standing (LMS) to ensure at least one active computer for Wake-on-LAN. It also covers Power Management Efficiency, Minimum Power Consumption, and Full Power Consumption metrics.
    - Dashboards overview
      BigFix Power Management offers dashboards like Power Management Health Checks and Power Consumption Summary to view power settings summaries in your deployment.
      - Power Management Health Checks dashboard
        The Power Management Health Checks dashboard offers troubleshooting and optimization checks for Power Management Deployments, organized into Setup, Historical Power Tracking, and Wake-on-LAN sections. Users can drill down into individual health checks to view results and resolutions for failing checks, expanding each item for detailed information.
      - Power Consumption Summary dashboard
        The Power Consumption Summary dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of power usage, including sections on aggregate power usage, average day breakdown of activity states, power management efficiency rating, idle time breakdown, power profile settings, average statistics, and details on powered on computers.
  - 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.
  - 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

Power Management Health Checks dashboard

The Power Management Health Checks dashboard offers troubleshooting and optimization checks for Power Management Deployments, organized into Setup, Historical Power Tracking, and Wake-on-LAN sections. Users can drill down into individual health checks to view results and resolutions for failing checks, expanding each item for detailed information.

The Power Management Health Checks dashboard provides troubleshooting and optimization checks for your Power Management Deployment. The dashboard is organized into Setup, Historical Power Tracking, and Wake-on-LAN sections.

You can drill down into individual health checks to see their results and a resolution path for failing checks. Expand each item to see the detailed results and resolution.