A power management calendar is a user-defined configuration policy. You can create a calendar-specific configuration policy, seal it, and apply it to the target computer (or group of computers) like any other standard configuration policy. This policy when applied to the computer becomes the power management calendar that governs the shutdown behavior for that computer.
The calendar consists of a set of time ranges. Each time range can be one of the following types:
Lets you define a policy based on some specific dates.
Lets you define a policy that is applicable to a chosen set of days (Sunday through Saturday).
Lets you define a policy based on some specific date range. You need to specify the start date and the end date to define a date range.
These time ranges are used to define rules based on the normal weekdays, some special dates, or some specific date ranges. Therefore, by using the calendar, you can determine when it is appropriate to keep a computer powered on or powered off.
The time ranges defined in the power management calendar are activated only when an SD job is pushed to the computer. For example, you configure the Shutdown Behavior configuration policy to use the calendar option (option 2), and define a time range to shut down a computer on March 26, 2009. But, no job is pushed to the computer on March 26, 2009. In this case, the power management calendar does not apply the defined time range, as no job has been pushed, and the computer is not shut down.
In the DSM Explorer, the power management calendar is represented as a configuration view.
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