Working with power management

Power management in Configuration Management revolves around three types of objects:

• Power schemes
• Power scheme groups
• Units

A power scheme is a set of settings that mirror those of Windows power management. The settings specify how the operating system acts in various situations, for example how long the computer can be idle before it goes to sleep.

A power scheme group links power schemes with units, and determines when each power scheme is applied to its members.

Units, in this case computers, are members of exactly one power scheme group. Each Configuration Management Point has two default power scheme groups, Computers and Servers, and new computers and servers are added to them automatically. When you add a computer to another power scheme group, it’s removed from the power scheme group it was in.

You find power management under Groups → System Groups → Power Management.

In this section

• Create a power scheme - Right-click Power Schemes and select Create….
• Create a power scheme group - Right-click Power Scheme Groups and select Create….
• Add a power scheme to a group - Drag a power scheme to a power scheme group, or open the properties of the power scheme group, select a power scheme and a start time, and click Add.
• Add a unit to a power scheme group - Drag a unit onto a power scheme group, or add it to the buffer and paste it on the group.
• Remove a power scheme from a group - Open the properties of the power scheme group, right-click a power scheme, and select Remove.
• Remove a unit from a power scheme group - Select the group, find the unit in the content view, and unlink it.

Related

• Power schemes - Learn more about power schemes.
• Power scheme groups - Learn more about power scheme groups.