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Configure Automatic Powersave on Computers

You can configure automatic Powersave on specific computers or a group of computers. Automatic Powersave helps save energy by powering down the computers automatically during specified time such as after work hours, weekends, and holidays.

Follow these steps:

1. Open DSM Explorer and navigate to Control Panel, Configuration, configuration policy.

   Configuration policy name

   Specifies the name of the policy that is applied to the computers or group for which you are defining the automatic Powersave settings.

2. Right-click the configuration policy and click Unseal.
3. Navigate to DSM, Common Components, CAF, GreenIT Powersave.
4. Set GreenIT: Powersave to Enabled.
5. Navigate to DSM, Common Components, CAF, Shutdown, Power Management Calendar, Time Ranges.

   The Power Management Calendar dialog appears.

6. Specify the required values for the given parameters.

   Hours

   Specifies the hours for the automatic Powersave action. Unlike with the Software Delivery shutdown feature, for automatic Powersave, only the start time of the time range is used to schedule a Powersave job. This means that the start time of the time range is the time when the automatic Powersave action is triggered. Even if specified, the end time of the time range does not affect the GreenIT Automatic Powersave feature.

   In the Type field, select one of the following values:

   Normal Weekdays

   Specifies the weekdays on which the Powersave action is executed.

   Special Dates

   Specifies dates in the yyyy-mm-dd format. Zeros in the date indicate that the setting is applicable for every year, month, or day.
   Example
   If the specified date is 2012-00-08, the job is executed on eighth day of every month of 2012. If the specified date is 00-08-00, the job is executed on all days of every August.

   Date Ranges

   Includes each day between the start date and end date.

   Example
   If the specified date range is 2012-05-01 to 2012-05-11, the job is executed on all days from 1st to 11th May 2012.

   The criterion for the automatic Powersave action is defined.

7. Copy this configuration policy to the target computers or computer groups.

At the scheduled time, CA ITCM displays a start timer message for the automatic shutdown, hibernate, sleep, or turnoff. Based on users actions, such as Shutdown now, Hibernate now, Sleep now, or Turn off Displaynow, Defer, or Cancel, computers are powered down. If there is no response from the user, the scheduled action is performed automatically at the end-of-countdown timeout.

Example:

If you specify the automatic Powersave time from 6.00pm to 9.00am every day. The users that are logged on to the computers are alerted at 6.00pm about the scheduled powerdown for the computer. They can click any one of the following options:

Shutdown now or Hibernate now or Sleep now or Turn off Display now

Applies the Powersave action immediately. On a computer resume from the Powersave state (such as Shutdown, Hibernate, Turn off Display, or Sleep), Powersave is initiated again according to the next defined Powersave schedule.

Defer

Defers the Powersave action for some time. You can specify the time to defer and the maximum number of times users can click Defer, after which the Powersave action is applied.

Cancel

Cancels the Powersave action. The timer and pop-up dialog are canceled. Powersave is initiated again according to the next defined Powersave schedule.

If there is no response from the user at the end of a countdown timeout, the Powersave action is applied automatically.

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