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Desktop Power Management

The simplest way to reduce wasted energy and still allow access for maintenance and critical updates is to implement an effective pc-power management solution.

IBM Tivoli® Endpoint Manager (TEM)—built on BigFix® technology - power management provides an intelligent, automated solution for reducing power consumption without adversely effecting computer use or administration. It does this by tracking the state of a computer (idle, active, standby, powered off) which will allow you to create power polices that maximise power savings. There are power reports that measure power usage, potential savings and sophisticated wake-on-lan capabilities to allow for maintenance and upgrades. The TaaS Power Management process can be divided into three steps: Analyse current endpoint power states Reduce power consumption Manage Wakeup behaviour

Key Features Core Tivoli Infrastructure Management Agent Management Power consumption analysis - This analysis tracks all settings necessary for determining power usage and cost for your computers. These properties include: Daily power cost, consumption, and carbon Hours per day in active, idle, off, and standby states Hardware assumptions Cost assumptions Current Power Profile Settings

Step 1: The endpoint tracks power states, active, idle, standby/hibernation and power off, it then presents the data back to the enterprise server and the end user.  The following picture shows an example of the data presented to the end user as a result of the power analysis.

Step2: The endpoint can reduce the power consumption by controlling the computer power states and minimize the waste caused by computers running while not in use. The following picture shows an example of the tools available to the endpoint for reducing power consumption.

Step3: The endpoint and associated infrastructure can be used to manage the wake up behaviour of a machine, it can bring a computer online in order to take actions and manage a machine during specified maintenance windows. The following picture shows an example of the tools available for managing the wake up behaviour of an endpoint.