Getting Started
Administering Power Save
The Faronics Power Save Administrator dialog can be accessed both at the console and the workstation level:
•
To access the Administrator dialog via Faronics Core Console, right-click one or more
workstations, select
Administer Power Save
.
•
To access the Administrator dialog at the workstation level,
Shift
+ double-click the Power
Save icon in the System Tray. At the workstation, the Administrator screen is displayed as a tab
adjacent to the Actions and Definitions tab.
Configuration Options
The following configuration options are available in the Administrator dialog:
Password
Select the
Enable workstation password protection
to enable password protection. Enter and confirm a password.
Alternatively, to enable or disable Password Protection through the right-click contextual menu:
•
select one or more workstations, right-click and select
Password Protection> Enable
.
•
select one or more workstations, right-click and select
Password Protection> Disable
.
Energy Consumption Profile
An Energy Consumption Profile is a customized set of values to specify power consumption of
Monitors and Computers running in full capacity and on standby mode, and cost per kilo Watt hour.
This data is used in the Power Save report, and quantifies how much power and money is being saved
by your hardware. The default Energy Consumption Profile is
Default
.
Complete the following steps to create a new Energy Consumption Profile:
1.
Click
New
to create a new Energy Consumption Profile.
2.
Specify a unique name in the
Name
field.
3.
Specify the power consumption for
Monitors
in the Watts-on and Watts-standby.
4.
Specify the power consumption for
Computers
in the Watts-on and Watts-standby.
5.
Specify the cost in the
Cost
field in cents per kilo Watt hour.
Alternatively, to Create or Apply an Energy Consumption Profile through the right-click contextual menu:
•
To create a new Energy Consumption Profile, select one or more workstations, right-click and
select
Energy Consumption Profile> Create New
. Follow steps 2 to 5 above.
•
To apply a previously created Energy Consumption Profile, select one or more workstations,
right-click and select
Energy Consumption Profile> Apply Profile
. Select the Energy
Consumption Profile and click
Apply
or
OK
.
When the Power Save Loadin is installed, the Energy Consumption Profile column is displayed in Faronics Core
Console. Click the column heading to sort the workstation list by the
Energy Consumption Profile
.
Stealth Mode
Select
Hide system tray icon
to hide the Power Save icon in the
System Tray
. Select
Hide icon in Start
menu
to hide the Power Save icon in the
Start Menu
.
Alternatively, to enable or disable Stealth Mode through the right-click contextual menu:
•
select one or more workstations, right-click and select
Stealth> Enable
.
•
select one or more workstations, right-click and select
Stealth> Disable
.
