How can I set BigFix power management settings myself or “opt out”?
If your computer has been automatically configured for BigFix power management, you can change the setting as needed. If your computer is not automatically configured, you are encouraged to enable BigFix power management yourself and participate in the School’s sustainability programs. There are circumstances where the automatically applied BigFix power management settings may interfere with your work. For example, as noted above, the Stanford Green setting may interrupt long running programs or remote connections to your office computer. As another example, supported laboratory computers are set to the Stanford Yellow setting because they often need to run programs continuously to control or monitor instruments. In this case, the monitor will go to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity, but the program will keep running. This is usually good enough, because you can wake up the monitor at any time to check program status. But if you need to have the monitor on all the time so you can gl
