Power

User State > Power

The Power Policy page creates and maintains power policies and applies them to selected machine IDs. A power policy determines how a machine's power management options are configured. Power management options can be set for:

• The display screen
• The hard drive
• Shut down, hibernate and stand by time periods
• Low battery warnings

You can provide your customers a significant savings in power consumption and extend the battery life of laptops automatically by applying a Power Policy to all your managed machines. The same policy is applied to each user on a machine, whether they are logged in or not. A power policy is not defined by group ID, since the same power policies are applicable to multiple customers. A machine must have the KUSM client installed using User State > Install/Remove to display on this page.

Note: Certain machines may not support one or more power policy settings. Typical examples include virtual machines and terminal servers. Power policies settings, if applied to these machines, are skipped. The Power Status page identifies which machines do not support a specific power policy setting.

Predefined Power Policies

The following predefined power policies are provided by User State and cannot be changed. They are based on predefined power schemes in Windows XP. You can assign them just as you would any user-defined power policy. You should be aware that selecting a predefined power policy affects processor performance on XP machines.

Processor Performance Control Policies

Microprocessors employ different performance states:

• High voltage/high frequency states for use when processor utilization is high.
• Low voltage/low frequency states to conserve battery life.

To support these microprocessor performance states, Windows XP uses processor performance control policies. The power policy determines the processor control policy on the target machine.

Actions

This page provides you with the following actions:

• Schedule - Display a popup window of the following schedule options:
  • Schedule Date/Time - Select the date and time to schedule this task.
  • Recurrence - Select whether to run this task once, hourly, daily monthly. If more than once, enter the number of times to run this task for the period selected.
  • Skip if offline - Check to perform this task only at the scheduled time. If the machine is offline, skip and run the next scheduled period and time. Uncheck to perform this task as soon as the machine connects after the scheduled time.
  • Stagger by N minutes. - You can distribute the load on your network by staggering this task. If you set this parameter to 5 minutes, then the scan on each machine ID is staggered by 5 minutes. For example, machine 1 runs at 10:00, machine 2 runs at 10:05, machine 3 runs at 10:10, ...
  • Apply / Cancel - Apply or cancel these schedule options.
• Apply Now - Apply a selected policy to selected machine IDs.
• Cancel - Cancel schedule options for selected machined IDs.
• Edit - Add, edit or delete an existing power policy. When adding or editing a policy you can rename the policy. The policies you create apply to all groups. To create a new policy select <Create New Power Policy> from the policy drop-down list and click Edit. You can Share... the power policies you create with other users or user roles. Built-in power policies cannot be modified and are already shared with all users.

Select All/Unselect All

Click the Select All link to check all rows on the page. Click the Unselect All link to uncheck all rows on the page.

Machine.Group ID

The list of Machine ID.Group IDs.Organization IDs displayed is based on the Machine ID / Group ID / Organization ID filter and the machine groups the user is authorized to see using System > User Security > Scopes.

Power Policy

The policy assigned to this machine ID.

Last Apply Time

The last time this policy was applied to this machine ID.

Skip if Machine Offline

If a checkmark displays and the machine is offline, skip and run the next scheduled period and time. If no checkmark displays, perform this task as soon as the machine connects after the scheduled time.

Next Apply Time

The next time this policy is scheduled to be applied. Displays as red text with yellow highlight if the time is past due.

Period

If recurring, displays the interval for the scheduled task to recur.

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