Which platforms support PowerMAN?
• PowerMAN Client – Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista and Windows 7 • Enterprise Server – Windows Server 2003 and 2008 NB: We do not recommend that active power management is applied to production servers. However, PowerMAN can be used on these operating systems when they are used as workstations. How does the reporting work? Will the reporting slow down our network? Do I have to use it? PowerMAN includes a powerful reporting engine. Anonymous power related data is collected and uploaded every night to either Data Synergy’s hosted servers or your own Enterprise Server. You can use this information to monitor application of your power policy, spot problems and calculate savings. The PowerMAN reporting process system is designed to have no impact on network performance or other infrastructure. Approximately 0.5KB of data is collected each day for each PC and typically the client software will only transfer this to the logging server once per day. The upload occurs at a random time a
