User: ChamaraG

Re:Do what you can

On: Power Management and Networks?

The savings from reducing night-time PC energy consumption is estimated by the LBNL to be several billion dollars. Plenty of barrels of oil there! What kind of 'broken' apps did you come across when enabling sleep?

Re:We don't do it

On: Power Management and Networks?

Hi, does the MS Systems Management Server include a wake-up function for waking up sleeping PCs for updates and maintenance tasks? What are the necessary requirements for this to work?

Re:24/7 uptime for all workstations as corp policy

On: Power Management and Networks?

Thanks, have you tested using wake-on-LAN or directed packet wake-up to periodically wake-up PCs for system updates and monitoring?

Re:We don't do it

On: Power Management and Networks?

Thanks, have you tried enabling and using wake-on-LAN in the PC network cards to wake-up the PCs for the software updates?

Re:Er, to be pedantic

On: Power Management and Networks?

Yes, you are right there. Even when 'off' the NIC and the motherboard draw some power (3W to 5W) to support network wake-up. For the survey, the 'off' PCs were not considered to be in low power states.