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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.
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.

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.
  - 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 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.

BigFix includes a number of strategies for saving power. The following list includes some common power saving strategies, though it is not comprehensive.

Enable Monitor Standby: Monitors represent a significant portion of power usage for desktops and laptops. Enabling Monitor Standby has minimal end-user impact because most monitors recover quickly from low power mode. Monitor Standby can be easily combined with the System Standby or Power-off strategies below. Use the Power Profile Wizard to change monitor standby policies.
Enable System Standby: As computers use very low power in standby mode, System Standby is considered the best approach to power management. Users must wake computers with a mouse click or keyboard strike before using them, but most computers wake from standby within 10 seconds.
Power-off Computers: You can power off computers at predefined times to save electricity. Powering off computers has the most end user impact, as this method can potentially cause work to be lost.