[BESAdmin-Announcements] New Features for Power Management Released!

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

We are pleased to announce the release of another set of features and 
fixes for our Power Management site.

Highlights include:

- Reporting enhancements: New charts in the Model Power Savings and Power 
Management Daily Activity State Breakdown reports
- A Fixlet for curing PC Narcolepsy on Windows Vista/7
- A more “intelligent” Power Profile Wizard that allows administrators to 
apply settings changes only if the proposed setting is more aggressive 
than the current setting
- A new version of the Store Power Data Utility

Details of this content update, including recommended actions to take, can 
be found below.

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Affected Fixlet Messages: 
- Enable History Tracking on Server (ID 32)
- Configure Power Tracking Utility Default Settings (ID 66)
- PC Narcolepsy: Set System Unattended Sleep Timeout - Windows Vista/7 (ID 
81)
- Update Store Power Data Utility (ID 83)

Affected Wizards/Dashboards/Web Reports: 
- Wizard: Power Profile Wizard
- Wizard: Wake-from-Standby
- Dashboard: Power Management Health Checks
- Web Report: Model Power Savings
- Web Report: Power Management Settings
- Web Report: Power Management Daily Activity State Breakdown
- Web Report: Power Consumption Over Time

Details on Updated Content:
-A new Fixlet has been created to address PC Narcolepsy on Windows Vista/7 
systems.  PC Narcolepsy refers to the problem where some computers that 
are remotely woken may go back to sleep after a couple of minutes unless 
they register user input (such as with a a mouse/keyboard). This problem 
occurs when you use Wake-on-LAN or Scheduled Wake-from-Standby 
capabilities to wake a computer when no user is present.
-A new capability has been added to the Power Profile Wizard. Now the 
operator has the option to create an “intelligent” power profile that will 
only apply a settings change if the proposed setting is more aggressive 
than the existing one.
-A new version of the Store Power Data Utility has been released to fix a 
bug where it fails to store historical data on groups that exist in more 
than one policy, such as “Subscribed Sites”.  All Power Management Web 
Reports have been updated to reflect the changes in the new Store Power 
Data Utility.
-A new chart has been added to the Model Power Savings Report.
-A new chart has been added to the Power Management Daily Activity State 
Breakdown Report.
-The “Count” column in the Wake-from-Standby Wizard has been renamed to 
“Applied” to clarify its meaning. 
-A bug has been fixed in the Wake-from-Standby Wizard where it would 
always display 0 computers if there was a space in the name of the task.

Actions to Take:
-Apply Fixlet ID 81 to configure the amount of time the system will stay 
awake after receiving a Wake-on-LAN or Wake-from-Standby event on Windows 
Vista and Windows 7 systems.
-Apply Fixlet ID 83 to upgrade to the latest version of the Store Power 
Data Utility.

Published site version:
Power Management, version 22

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Application Engineering Team 
Tivoli Endpoint Manager
IBM Tivoli Software

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