FARONICS POWER SAVE MAC, Manual

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Page 3: ...l support faronics com Phone 800 943 6422 or 604 637 3333 Hours 7 00 am to 5 00pm Pacific Time Contact Information Web www faronics com Email sales faronics com Phone 800 943 6422 or 604 637 3333 Fax 800 943 6488 or 604 637 8188 Hours 7 00 am to 5 00pm Pacific Time Address Faronics Technologies USA Inc 2411 Old Crow Canyon Road Suite 170 San Ramon CA 94583 USA Faronics Corporation 609 Granville St...

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Page 5: ...ane 9 Creating a User 9 Editing User Properties 10 Enabling or Disabling Power Save 10 Inactivity Tab 10 Inactivity Definitions Tab 11 Schedule Tab 12 Creating or Modifying a Scheduled Action 12 Deleting a Scheduled Action 13 Shutdown Options Tab 13 Reports Tab 14 Deep Freeze Tab 16 Appendix I Power Save Mac Assistant Customizing the Installer 17 Appendix II Apple Remote Desktop v 3 0 Integration ...

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Page 7: ...tes savings based on native power consumption events restart shutdown etc as well as events executed through Power Save About Apple Remote Desktop ARD Apple Remote Desktop is Apple Computer s complete desktop management solution for Mac OS X Faronics does not provide sales or technical support information for Apple Remote Desktop More information regarding ARD can be found at http www apple com re...

Page 8: ... a preference pane accessible in System Preferences The computer requires a restart to complete the installation Installing via Apple Remote Desktop Power Save Mac is distributed as a standard installation package file and can therefore be installed over a network using Apple Remote Desktop s Install Packages command Refer to the Apple Remote Desktop user guide for more information Refer toAppendi...

Page 9: ...e lock icon to unlock the preference pane When the changes are complete click the icon again to lock the screen and prevent any other changes Creating a User When the lock is clicked for the first time the following dialog appears Enter a User Name and Password confirm the password and click OK Licensing To specify a License Key click the Action icon and select Licensing Enter the License Key in t...

Page 10: ...the computer s CPU and put the computer into Sleep mode when inactive use the appropriate slider bar and adjust the number of minutes to initiate the Sleep function To manage energy used by the computer s display and put the display into Sleep mode when the computer is inactive use the appropriate slider bar and adjust the number of minutes to initiate the Display Sleep function To manage energy u...

Page 11: ... disk activity in the inactivity definition select Hard Drive Usage and use the slider bar to configure the amount of hard disk traffic in kB s which defines inactivity For all of the above inactivity definitions the program will check for activity every 30 seconds to determine if the utilization is below the designated amount To include the activity of running applications in the inactivity defin...

Page 12: ... with the designated Inactivity Definitions Creating or Modifying a Scheduled Action To add a scheduled action click the icon and choose the type of action required The following configuration screen appears From the Frequency drop down menu select if this action will repeat or is a one time only action For Repeating actions choose from the available options Item Options Action Choose from the fol...

Page 13: ...e actions can be selected by command clicking the desired actions or shift clicking a continuous group of actions A dialog appears confirming that the selected actions are to be deleted Click Delete to permanently remove the action or click Cancel to return to the Schedule tab Shutdown Options Tab The Shutdown Options tab is used to customize various options that affect shutdown To warn users befo...

Page 14: ...if you want Power Save to report to Faronics Core Console select Faronics Core Console in the Report to drop down Configure Service Select the communication protocol The following options are available Using host and port this is the only option available if Faronics Core Console is selected in Report to drop down Using Bonjour service name For example if you want Power Save to report to Power Sav...

Page 15: ...rovides predefined Energy Consumption profiles that can be used to generate reports Fore more information on how to generate Power Save Reports via Faronics Core Console refer to Power Save User Guide available at http www faronics com library Power Save Mac reports to Faronics Core Console only if the Enable Power Save check box is selected Dynamic Custom Workstation Groups in Faronics Core Conso...

Page 16: ...uled Maintenance Period To ensure that these Maintenance Periods run as scheduled Power Save is able to detect the time of the Deep Freeze Maintenance Period and will automatically schedule a start up action one minute prior to its occurrence If Deep Freeze is installed and is configured with a scheduled Maintenance Period select the Make sure workstation is running before Deep Freeze Maintenance ...

Page 17: ... install Power Save Mac specific Saved Tasks into the Apple Remote Desktop ARD console on the current system ARD tasks are not part of the customized Power Save Mac installation package Neither ARD nor the ARD agent can be running in order for the task installation to be successful To run Power Save Mac Assistant complete the following steps 1 Double click the program icon to open Power Save Assis...

Page 18: ... or the ARD agent is currently running and giving the option to quit ARD immediately or at a later time The Power Save tasks will only be installed if ARD is not running Choose the preferred action and click Continue The Power Save Mac Custom Installer screen appears To create a custom client installer select Yes create a custom installer and click Continue 4 The Licensing screen appears Specify t...

Page 19: ...tivity Inactivity Definitions Schedule Shutdown Options Reports and Deep Freeze tabs Refer to those respective sections in this user guide for more information 7 Once Configuration is complete the Choose Power Save Mac Installer screen appears 8 Click Choose and browse to the location of the Power Save Mac installer package Power Save pkg located in the Power Save Mac folder Alternatively drag and...

Page 20: ...tion into the Choose dialog screen Click Continue The final screen appears stating that the custom client installer was successfully created and that the Power Save Mac tasks were installed into ARD 10 Click Quit to close the Power Save Mac Assistant The custom installation package can now be deployed to a single computer or group of computers either locally or remotely ...

Page 21: ...e described below Each task can be configured in the Power Save Mac preference pane except for status The status command returns the same settings in the Power Save GUI Task Argument Function addAppToList application_name Adds a new application to the auto cancel list under Inactivity Definitions on the target computer s addEvent once Argument 1 shutdown startup sleep wake Argument 2 once Argument...

Page 22: ...wn if multiple users are logged into the target computer s autoCancelActionsIfSetAppsOpen Automatically cancels an impending action if specific applications have been designated on the target computer s cancelScheduledEventsIfComputerActive Automatically cancels an impendingscheduledaction if the target computer s is active as set in Inactivity Definitions checkForUpdates Checks whether the presen...

Page 23: ... in Inactivity Definitions dontHDAutoCancelIfAboveThreshold Allows an impending action to occur even if hard disk activity is above the designated level on the target computer s dontCPUAutoCancelIfAboveThreshold Allows an impending action tooccurevenif CPUactivity is above the designated level on the target computer s dontHDAutoCancelIfAboveThreshold Allows an impending action to occur even if har...

Page 24: ...hold 0 kB s Automatically cancels an impending action if hard disk activity is above the designated level on the target computer s HDSleepIfPossible Automatically puts the hard disk on the target computer s to sleep when possible networkAutoCancelIfAboveThreshold 0 kB s Automatically cancels an impending action if network activity is above the designated level on the target computer s removeAppFro...

Page 25: ... address and Port numbers can be set with additional arguments These arguments are applicable when Faronics Core Console or the Report Generator is selected with Hostname or IP address setReportingService Argument 1 RG Argument 2 name service_name Sets the reporting service to Report Generator The Hostname IP address and Portnumberscanbesetwith additional arguments These arguments are applicable w...

Page 26: ...6 version Requests Power Save version number on the target computer s warnUsersBeforeAction minutes Warns users a designated amount of time before impending actions are to occur on the target computer s ...

Page 27: ...to the list it reads No Computers 3 Drag and drop the preferred workstations or group of workstations into the dialog from the computers in the All Computers list The number of computers assigned to a specific task appears at the bottom of the window 4 Click Save The following figure shows the enable task set to run Each task must be edited to use a Power Save administrator s user name and passwor...

Page 28: ...with several different third party enterprise management tools and or central management solutions this includes executing commands in Terminal while connected to a remote workstation via SSH A sample script using the shutdownAfter30 command is shown below Library Application Support Faronics PowerSave CLI administrator password shutdownAfter 30 In this example administrator is the name of a valid...

Page 29: ...gy savings that Power Save is able to provide The report lists all workstations reporting to the server machine and calculates savings with the user entered power cost These reports can be saved as both text and HTML files Events will not be recorded by Power Save if the computer is asleep or powered off Configuring Power Save Report Generator To set up the Power Save report generator complete the...

Page 30: ...30 Use the Preferences window to specify the default power cost This value appears as the default in the Power Save Report Generator main window and can be changed for each individual report ...

Page 31: ... the Power Save Report Generator Preferences pane Specify the number of days to retain data Events older than the listed number of days are removed after a restart and every 24 hours afterwards Select the communication protocol or the service from the Configure Service drop down Select Using TCP IP port or Using Bonjour Service The Port numbers for the Report Generator must be between 1024 and 655...

Page 32: ...or on Workstations To set the Power Save configuration on a workstation that sends events complete the following steps 1 Open the workstation s System Preferences pane followed by Power Save 2 Click on the Reports tab 3 Specify the workstation display type and the name of the service to which it reports If the display is built in it will be detected automatically by Power Save 4 Exit the Preferenc...

Page 33: ...ing can be specified for each report generated It does not replace the entry in the Energy Cost field of the Power Save Report Generator Preferences pane only replaces it for that particular report 4 The report can also be configured to list a workstation s name and or IP address At least one box must be selected 5 Choose the start and end dates the report covers The earliest start date is limited...

Page 34: ...on in the bottom left of the Group Editor Name the group and click OK To re name a group double click it in the Groups window Groups can be deleted by selecting Remove To add a workstation to the group click Add in the bottom right of the Group Editor and select it from the list Click OK A workstation can be listed in more than one group Workstations can be removed from a group by clicking Remove ...