1E’s Real-Time Platform, augments all levels of IT. 1E enables employees to self-serve any request, even a complete PC rebuild or replacement, and empowers IT to resolve incidents across the organization interactively and immediately. These resolutions are then encapsulated as new functionality so they can be safely deployed by lower-level technicians or as self-service. New baselines can also be created to automate configuration drift management.

Give employees the mobile-like experience they expect.

1E’s Real-Time Platform, is designed to make automation easy, even in large and complex organizations.

Technicians can interactively investigate, develop and test fixes across all endpoints, getting results immediately to confirm success and move on to the next issue. They can then empower lower-level technicians to implement the fix, enable employees to self-serve, or even create an automated remediation so no other employee experiences the same issue.

NightWatchman extends the core PC power management capabilities offered by Microsoft‟s System Center Configuration Manager 2012, providing additional functionality to manage complex scenario’s across a typical enterprise network. 1E offers deep support for Windows 7, older operating systems and Macs; helps fix “sleepless” PCs; and includes outstanding wake-on-lan capabilities for patching purposes. Users can remotely wake up their work PCs for remote access as well as opt-out of power management during important tasks. NightWatchman also comes with a comprehensive PC make and model power database, senior-management dashboard and baseline energy management capabilities to help gain proven savings over time.

Together, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and 1E NightWatchman give organizations a powerful way to manage today‟s power-intensive IT systems. They deliver three key tools that organizations need:

• Administrative flexibility, so that organizations can better manage a diverse IT environment.
• User empowerment, so that organizations can tailor power management without an adverse effect on employee productivity.
• Advanced reporting, to create a clear and highly accurate picture of cost savings and energy-use reductions.

With SCCM 2012 power management and 1E NightWatchman, organizations can develop power-management strategies that make sense.

Administrative Flexibility

Most organizations have an IT environment that consists of multiple operating systems. and have varying needs for patching and powering PCs on or off. System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and 1E NightWatchman offer organizations the flexibility needed to handle a complex IT infrastructure and make SCCM 2012 power management enterprise ready.

For instance, one barrier to effective power management has been the concern that data may be lost during forced shut-downs. To avoid this, power management with System Center Configuration Manager 2012 takes a conservative approach to enabling power savings with hibernate or sleep modes. Power policies can be created that save similar amounts of power, but do not completely shut systems off. Instead, they lower power consumption on components during idle periods and put systems into sleep modes. Configuration Manager 2012 provides the necessary engine to set and configure Windows power policies centrally on clients, ensuring that PCs go into a sleep mode after a period of inactivity.

However, some applications do not transition to sleep or hibernate very effectively. NightWatchman extends that capability to manage an organization‟s specific needs and provides additional power down functionality. Most enterprises require a range of power-management exceptions so that important processes are not disrupted. NightWatchman allows IT managers to set power-down rules so that PCs performing key tasks are exempted from scheduled sleep or hibernate periods. At the same time, rules can be set so that PCs not currently performing key tasks can be powered down.

To wake PC’s for patching purposes, SCCM 2012 provides wake from sleep timers using the operating system to wake machines at a pre-defined time.  NightWatchman enhances this capability by providing SCCM 2012 wake on lan capabilities, either scheduled or on demand with no network modifications required.  Machines woken with 1E WakeUP can be configured to go back to a lower power state as soon as maintenance is completed.

NightWatchman enhances the standard Windows power settings by repairing “sleepless” PCs, where rogue applications and drivers prevent PCs from sleeping when they should. Together with System Center, it can identify and repair sleepless PCs. System Center Configuration Manger 2012 and 1E NightWatchman together squeeze savings out of an organization‟s power-management scheme – including servers when used with NightWatchman Server Edition.

Empowering Users to Effectively Manage Power Needs

Another barrier to power management adoption has been a worry that remote users will not be able to access their office PCs. And there are concerns that forced “sleep” sessions could interrupt important tasks. Configuration Manager 2012 and 1E NightWatchman give IT managers the control they need to ensure that power management does not interfere with critical business needs.

Most organizations have at least some systems which fall into the exception category. In certain cases, there are systems that are required to be turned on and fully available at all hours. Other systems may not have necessary compliant hardware for power management.

Configuration Manager 2012 allows different departments or business units to have different policies, depending on their needs. In addition, two power management policies can be set for all clients: one for peak periods and one for non-peak periods. This allows for more aggressive power management policies to be enacted at night during non-peak periods, with more lax settings to be in place during the day.

NightWatchman adds to these capabilities so that employees can take further control of their power consumption. PC users performing critical tasks can choose to temporarily “opt out” of power management. In addition, 1E’s Web Wake Up – a part of NightWatchman – allows workers who are traveling or telecommuting to navigate to a secure Web page and turn on their office PCs when remote access is required. NightWatchman also checks PCs for applications that are in use and is designed to securely save data before rebooting for a patch application or other process.

Advanced Reporting Completes the Picture

One key aspect to a power-management solution is to offer concrete evidence of the possible savings. NightWatchman measures PC usage and uses ‘what-if’ analyses to predict the eventual power savings that could be achieved by putting PCs into a low power state when they are not being used. This information gains reliability by drawing upon make- and model-specific power consumption values and location-specific energy costs and carbon tariffs.

Moreover, once policies are in place, Configuration Manager 2012 and NightWatchman continue to track power consumption and settings on all managed clients. This information can be stored for years in the data warehouse, giving a long-term look at power reductions and CO2 emission savings. The Configuration Manager 2012 environmental impact report can be run across all systems or a collection of systems using a specific CO2 rating as an input parameter.

NightWatchman also provides a dashboard that shows high-level management information at a glance. It is customizable and can be tailored to individual organization and managers‟ needs.