Why use BigFix?
Clearly, BigFix is a convenient and effective way to enable power management for those computers that are currently just left running all the time. But it also has advantages over manual settings that the computer user may have already enabled. The BigFix power management program will make consistent settings for all supported computers in the School. This means that users know what to expect on any computer and the CRC support team can more readily debug any issues related to power management. BigFix checks every day to make sure the power management settings are still in effect. This prevents gradual erosion of energy savings as users “temporarily” disable power management for a special reason, but then forget to put it back. Finally, the BigFix program will report the power management setting of all computers in the School to a central console. This gives us a good way to measure how effectively we are saving energy on computer systems school-wide. There is no way to centrally measu
