LANDesk Power Management

When it comes to power management of your PC networks, the challenge lies in balancing financial, environmental and productivity considerations. In addition, IT's mandate to maximize system availability subtly conflicts with the view of some in the power management community because "standby," "hibernate" and "off" imply a period of downtime as the system returns from power-saving mode to availability. Deploying a solution that is capable of addressing these considerations is essential to a successful "Green IT" initiative.

LANDesk^® Power Manager software provides the tools necessary to conduct prudent power management and balance the trade-offs between power savings and system availability. You can be confident that your power management strategy will not interfere with employee productivity with LANDesk Power Manager.

Easier Access, Greater Flexibility, and Enhanced Reporting via a New User Interface

With LANDesk Power Manager, you get a simple-to-use interface with local scheduling capability to easily create and configure power policies and settings beyond what Microsoft Windows offers. You can then deploy your power policies automatically based on group policies, location, or a variety of other ways that fit your organization. For example, the solution features "chronological variability" that enables you to set management policies that can vary by hour of the day and day of the week, something that Windows doesn't allow you to do natively. Chronological variability allows you to have different policies on weekends versus Monday through Friday. You can even establish policies appropriate for non-traditional work weeks, such as Monday through Thursday.

Create and Configure Power Policies and Settings

As shown below, you can centrally define and administer power schemes or policies by selecting options from the drop-down boxes highlighted in red: Action, Device, Inactivity trigger, Day and Time. Multiple power schemes with "chronological variability" can be combined into a single power policy. Once saved, the policy is distributed to target computers.

Enhanced Reporting Capabilities

In addition to policy scheduling flexibility, LANDesk Power Manager offers enhanced reporting features. Prior to policy distribution, you can evaluate the estimated power and financial savings by clicking the reporting button. Doing so brings up the "Savings report" window.

Within the savings report window you:

• Select the group of computers you want to target for analysis with the policy
• Choose to graph savings by wattage or by financial savings
• Enter actual cost per kilowatt hour
• Specify the desired timeframe (e.g. weekly, monthly, annually)

The report output shown above estimates 46% savings in wattage consumed over one year (158 kilowatts or $15.80 per machine). The typical savings per system is $10 to $20 a year (computer plus monitor). Savings can be significantly more where energy costs are higher, such as Europe.

Experience the Eco-and CFO-Friendly Advantages of End-Node Power Management Control

For more information on LANDesk Power Manager,download our free whitepaper that provides the rationale behind our recommendation that customers apply simple, balanced power-saving policies, or contact a LANDesk representative at1-800-982-2130 or sales@landesk.com.