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Following an article from "The Register", It-Analysts discovered that energy cost could be reduced by up to 80% if PCs simply would be shutdown after work and on weekends.The Register
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Basic Client Settings: Instant Overview over Electricity Savings and Carbon Footprint Reduction
Savings in money and reduction in carbon footprint can be analysed across groups and the whole network.
So at any time, the savings to date are calculated and you can measure your progress in going green.
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Basic Client Settings: Monitor Keyboard, Hard drive and CPU and automatically shutdown your PC
Without any configuration Auto Shutdown Manager monitors keyboard, hard drive and CPU. If for a adjustable period of time all activity has been below the adjustable threshold the PC will enter power saving mode. Also on this screen you can monitor the activity in the past that inhibited the PC from entering the the power saving mode.
If the PC is in standby mode it will power up in seconds just like a screen saver, eliminating the needs for long boot wait times.
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Basic Client Settings: Synchronize other Workstation or server states across your network
Where you can configure other machines that will power up if your PC is powered up.
This is handy if you have a Domain Server or Media File Server as you don't have to manually turn everything on every time anymore.
You can also configure components in your network that prevent this machine to power down as long as those passive components are online.
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Advanced Client Settings: Applications and tasks preventing power down
You can configure applications that are supposed to run unattended. The machine will not power down as long as those tasks are running.
You can configure permanent and temporary application. Temporary applications will be deleted after a power down, permanent applications will always be monitored, such as nightly backup tasks.
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Basic Client Settings: Monitor advanced services and triggers
Auto Shutdown Manager allows you to monitor any process state or windows object such as network traffic and cpu cycles for .net and .asp or IP, ICMP, printer queues and so on. For each monitored indicator thresholds can be defined. As long as thresholds are reached the machine will not enter power saving modes.
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Basic Client Settings: Scheduled Tasks
Auto Shutdown Manager monitors scheduled tasks such as backup jobs or file synchronization.
You can also setup your PC to boot at 8:00 am so it is ready when you enter your office. No long wait times before you can start working in the morning.
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Advanced Client Settings: Vmware Virtual Machine support
Auto Shutdown Manager can also control the state of VMware virtual machines. It will power up VMware safely and stop them before the server entering power saving states.
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Basic Client Settings: Scheduled access protection
Auto Shutdown Manager can be configured to allow time quota per day or week during which the PC may be used. If the Quota is used up, users can not log on. Quota can be replenished based on rules and differ on certain days. So you can allow the machine to be used only during business hours or allow your child only to play online games for 3 hours on weekends.
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Basic Client Settings: Power State, Energy Consumption and Savings Log
Auto Shutdown Manager logs all events so you have a central view on your savings in terms of currency or CO2 reduction.
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Basic Client Settings:Basic Settings
Here you can configure what power state the PC will enter (Standby, Hibernate or power off). You can even reboot your machine and perform tasks during boot or before shutdown. You can also define how to handle each service in case you have delicate system services that need to be started/stopped before the Server changes power state, giving you total control of the behaviour of your machine.
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Basic Client Settings: Safely Control Devices and Services during power save and start up
Each service can be Here you can configure what power state the PC will enter (Standby, Hibernate or power off). You can even reboot your machine and perform tasks during boot or before shutdown. You can also define how to handle each service in case you have delicate system services that need to be started/stopped before the Server changes power state, giving you total control of the behaviour of your machine.