Added: May 30, 2008 11:06 am
Salient Characteristics for Power Management Software Power Management
Functions
Workstation Power Management Tool will be required to influence the power behaviors of the existing Macintosh and Windows Workstations.
The Power Management Tool will have the capability of monitoring, managing, and controlling Macintosh and Windows Workstation power settings. To include:
Should have a power up on LAN capability some characteristics are:
Ability to schedule wake from standby without WOL capable/enabled hardware
Supports WOL across subnets without risk of broadcast storms
Fault tolerant, zero management WOL proxy election
IP subnet discovery to support WOL on networks with Network Address Translation
Setup of turn off or restart computers through the network console/
the capability of saving and closing of applications without loss of data before any shutdowns (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, WordPad, and Notebook)/ to aggregate power usage summaries and retrieval of the information for reporting purposes (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)/ view and control of power-saving settings hibernation, stand-by settings, hard-drive and monitor shutdown settings/ View the reports through a Web Based Reporting/ Control all standard Windows and Macintosh Power Management settings Sophisticated power profiles that support different Power Management settings depending on time of day and day of week/ Implement new power profiles without re-imaging, ghosting, or script development/ Power profiles and scheduling of power states managed via Power Management groups/ Instant, network-wide power access to execute power state changes on demand/ Allows user to temporarily override power settings, resetting them the next day/
Application protection without scripting
Reporting
Energy use forecasting
Energy and Cost analysis reporting
Peak demand consumption estimate
Reports based on actual user activity
Energy usage data reported with hourly or daily granularity
Third party validated M&V;
Other
Provides asset information on each client
Works with all environments, tools, and systems (e.g., SMS, AD, ZENWorks)
Supports all current Macintosh and Windows OS versions
Core Service Workstations 2700 EA
Power Management for Desktops 2700 EA