Power Management
Reduce utility costs with automated power management
- Utility cost-savings, of up to $75 per PC per year
- Reduced energy consumption
- Rapid ROI documented through detailed reports
- Eligibility for green rebates from your utility company
About Power Management
Energy consumed by unattended, unused computers across your network can drain your budget, as well as natural resources. Yet users and IT staff are often too busy to manually manage power usage.
An add-on to your Lightspeed implementation, Lightspeed Power Management provides sustainable energy savings across your network by monitoring energy usage and directing low-power states and shutdown times. Utility cost-savings of up to $75 per PC per year are documented with detailed reports.
Features of Power Management
Lightspeed Power Management provides powerful, easy-to-use features for managing energy use:
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- Customizable Aggressive, Moderate, Relaxed, and No power management policies
- Shutdown, reboot, standby, or wake on LAN power events
- Scheduling by day and time
- Easy deployment using Active Directory or Zenworks group policies to push out client software
- Centralized controls within the Lightspeed interface
- Power event overrides to accommodate weekly software updates
- Workstation grouping to simplify large deployments
- Wake-on-LAN capabilities for updates and remote management
Reporting of Power Management
Power Management gives you access to comprehensive information about your energy usage and energy savings. Reports can be exported to PDF or .csv files and viewed by designated users. Power Management includes critical reports on your network energy usage, like:
- Network Power Consumption
- Savings by Computer
- Detailed Workstation Utilization
- Computers with Power Management Agent
With Power Management you can:
- Save money by powering down unused computers.
- Easily conserve and control energy consumption and costs.
- Balance the needs of your users with automated alerts and bypass capabilities.
- Customize inactivity definitions based on user requirements.
- Utilize “green rebates” from utility companies to offset expenses.