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hardware inventory to collect data. You can view the hardware inventory by using
reports and graphs to determine optimal power management settings for your envi-
ronment. During your monitoring stage, you can use a number of reports that provide
information related to current power settings on computers in a collection; power
management capabilities of a computer; and current computer, monitor, and user
activity over a period of time. You can also use the reports to provide information
related to current power consumption for a specified collection over a period of time,
current power consumption costs for a specified collection over a period of time, and
computers not capable of power management.
Plan power management plans.
After monitoring and collecting baseline data, you can use the gathered information to
decide on the types of power management settings you want to deploy. It is important
to determine specific settings that you want to enable or disable to meet your organi-
zational requirements.
2.
Apply power management policies.
After carefully planning your power management settings, you can configure and
apply the required plan settings to a specific collection. Depending on the settings
required, you can specify default power plans, or you can create your own customized
power plan.
3.
Check compliance and reports.
As the power management settings take effect, you can track ongoing power con-
sumption and settings on all managed computers and troubleshoot any problems.
Various reports provide details about power usage, costs, and environmental impact.
4.
Power management plan settings
When you are ready to apply power management settings, you can choose to implement a
default power plan or customize your own plan for both peak and nonpeak time intervals.
Default power plans include:
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Balanced.
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High Performance.
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Power Saver.
Depending on the power plan that you use and the peak or nonpeak configuration, vari-
ous power management settings might or might not be applied. You cannot modify default
