The Power Management Calendar in Software Delivery enables an administrator to define a time window when specified hardware is set to powerdown. GreenIT Powersave utilizes the same calendar for defining the Powersave settings. When both the features are enabled, the time schedules that are configured for one feature are applied to the other feature.
When a GreenIT Powersave action such as Suspend or Shutdown is initiated, the software delivery agent does not run as long as the Powersave dialog appears to the user. After Powersave is complete, the software delivery agent uses the WOL feature to start the computer and run software delivery jobs.
Note: Software delivery takes place even while the Turn off display dialog appears to the user or when the Turn off Display operation is in progress.
When the GreenIT Powersave job initiates during the software delivery, automatic Powersave actions wait until the completion of software delivery or until the timeout expiry. This behavior does not hold true for powesave action Turn off display.
Use the following configuration parameters to define whether Client Automation-initiated Powersave and user-initiated power actions are allowed when a software delivery job is in progress:
Specifies whether to allow any Client Automation-initiated Powersave action (excluding turn off display) when a software delivery job is in progress. This parameter does not control the actions that a user initiates from the Start menu. This parameter also specifies whether to prevent sleep or hibernate actions that are initiated by Windows power schema while a software delivery job is in progress.
Specifies whether to allow any logoff, reboot, or shutdown actions (including user-initiated actions but excluding sleep, hibernate and turn off display actions) when a software delivery job is in progress.
Both the parameters are set to False by default. In this state, these parameters do not allow either Client Automation-initiated Powersave actions (such as shutdown, hibernate, or sleep) or a user-initiated shutdown action, when a software delivery job is in progress. We recommend that you set both parameters to the same value to ensure consistent behavior. You can set both the parameters to True and software delivery jobs that are either in progress or are waiting for an input from the user are aborted, and a reboot, logoff, or shutdown is performed.
You can configure the postponement timeout for Client Automation-initiated Powersave actions by using the following configuration parameter available at DSM, Common Components, CAF, General:
Specifies the maximum time value for which CAF waits for the plug-in to complete before implementing a Powersave action.
The default value is set to 7200 sec. If set to 0, postponement timeout is not allowed.
Alternatively, you can postpone Client Automation-initiated Powersave actions when a software delivery job is in progress.
Follow these steps:
Note: For Asset Management, you can set the CAF Plugin: Asset Management Agent parameter to Enabled. Enabling this parameter postpones the Client Automation-initiated Powersave actions when an asset management job is in progress.
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