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Power Settings

The Power Settings pane displays the information about the power settings, such as support hibernation, and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) presence, policies set for the power settings, and power management attributes for Green IT Assessment.

This pane includes the following node:

Power Policy

Includes the following power management attributes of the assets for Green IT Assessment. If the system has a battery present, the DC settings are shown. There is a DC setting for each AC setting, for example, DC – Monitor Timeout. If the attributes are not retrieved, the status is displayed as Unknown in the user interface.

• AC – Hard Disk Timeout
• AC – Hibernate Timeout
• AC – Monitor Timeout
• AC – Sleep Timeout
• Power Scheme Name

  Note: Windows does not store the power scheme name along with the currently in use power scheme settings on Windows versions earlier than Windows Vista and Windows 2008. On versions prior to Windows Vista and Windows 2008, the power scheme name is stored on the user login, provided the user has a permission to change the power scheme. If a privileged user logs in, changes the power scheme to one with a different name, logs off, and then does not log on again before an asset scan is done, the power scheme name that is stored will be incorrect.

The Power Policy node also includes the AC Policy group that contains the following parameters:

• Display Dimming
• Dynamic Throttle
• Fan Throttle Tolerance
• Forced Throttle
• Hard Disk Spindown Timeout
• Idle Sensitivity
• Idle Timeout
• Max Sleep
• Min Sleep
• Min Throttle
• Optimize For Power
• Reduced Latency Sleep
• Suspend to Hibernate timeout
• Video Timeout
• Win Logon Flags
• Broadcast Capacity Resolution (only shown if a battery is present)
• Lid Closed (Group*) (only shown if a Lid is present, that is, it is a laptop)
• On Lid Open (only shown if a Lid is present)
• On Enter Idle State (Group*)
• Over Throttled (Group*)
• Power Button Pressed (Group*)
• Sleep Button Pressed (Group*)

And, groups within the AC Policy group contain the following items:

• Action
• EventCode : Clears a user power button press
• EventCode : Response to a user power button press
• EventCode : Shutdown/Off
• EventCode : Specifies a program to be executed
• EventCode : User notified using sound
• EventCode : User notified using the UI
• Flags : Disable all wake events
• Flags : Force critical suspension
• Flags : Lightest first
• Flags : Lock console
• Flags : Override apps
• Flags : Query allowed
• Flags : UI allowed

The parameter timeout value of 00:00:00 signifies Never, which means that the timeout will never occur. However, any other time is the actual timeout value in the form of hh:mm:ss (hours:minutes:seconds), for example, 00:10:00 signifies 10 minutes timeout.

Note: This inventory information is collected by the General Inventory module and is available only if you have installed asset management.

The following columns display the value for each of the preceding attributes:

Attribute

Displays the scanned inventory item such as total memory and speed.

Value

Shows the value of the items.

Previous Value

Shows the last modified value.

Date

Shows the date when the item was last modified.

Note: You can show or hide these columns.

More information:

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