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Introduction

Power Management requires three processes:

· Define the policy

· Schedule the task

· Select the devices to receive the policy

Define the Power Policy

1. In the LD console, go to the Power Management section of the console by either clicking the button on the left labeled ‘Power Management’, then ‘Power Management’, or, from the menu bar, Tools àPower Management à Power Management.

2. Decide what type of power management policy do you want.

i. Hibernate – shuts computer off and stores memory on hard drive

ii. Standby – puts computer in low power state

iii. Turn on

iv. Turn off – can select device, monitor, computer, or hard disk

v. Alert

3. Create the new policy: Right click ‘my policies’ and select New Power Policy. Give it a name starting with your school number.

a. Depending on your plan,

i. Select an action

ii. Select device

iii. Select ‘inactivity trigger’: for turn off of computer, this will be type, hard or soft. Hard shuts down no questions asked, soft will give users a chance to save open documents, but if they don’t, computer may not actually turn off.

iv. Source – applicable to laptops, plugged in, AC power, or both

v. Day – select all appropriate

vi. Time – select all appropriate

5. Click ‘add power scheme’

6. Repeat 4.a through f. as necessary to build the policy definition

7. Ignore options for now, there’s an easier way later.

8. When you’re done, click Save.

Schedule the Power Policy Task

1. Right click on your new policy and choose ‘Schedule Power Policy’ – LANDesk AUTOMATICALLY takes you to scheduled tasks and creates the task for you. This task is different from distribution packages, and there aren’t really any options or anything of interest inside.

2. Drag target computers to the task, right click task, select Start Now

3. Over the course of a few days, your policy will be deployed to the target machines.

Adding a Process Sensitive Trigger

Process sensitive triggers will allow machines to ignore a power policy if something is running.

1. In the power management section, click the second button from the right and choose ‘identify process sensitive triggers.”

2. Type the name, for example, the AV is ‘LDAVScanner.exe’

3. Check the box to ‘enable and apply to all policies’ if appropriate. OK

4. Now that you have these defined, you can edit your policies and go to the options section to add/manage process sensitive triggers.

Challenge: PowerPoint’s process is called Powerpnt.exe – can you make a policy that puts a teacher machine to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity unless PowerPoint is open?