Reporting
NightWatchman Management Center provides a number of reports on power consumption across your network. To view the reports, navigate to the NightWatchman Management Center Report Console at: http://<ReportWebsite>/ReportConsole where <ReportWebsite> is the name of the server where the it is installed.
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If the website is installed locally, use local host instead its server name.
Nightwatchman reports are categorised as follows:
Power Management | |||
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Savings | As compared to a baseline | Weekly – a before and after comparison of your savings in a weekly format
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Yearly – a before and after comparison of your savings in an annual format.
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Utility rebate data – a before and after comparison of your savings to submit to your utility provider to claim rebates
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Estimates | Cost savings – an estimate of your cost savings without a baseline comparison.
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Potential power and cost savings, daily – a what-if analysis displaying your potential savings on a daily basis if you used a power management policy.
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Potential power and cost savings, monthly – a what-if analysis displaying your potential savings on a monthly basis if you used a power management policy.
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Power savings – your estimated power savings.
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Others | Savings by overriding sleepless processes.
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Consumption | By computer, grouped by organizational groups | Daily – daily power consumption for devices within an organization group.
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Monthly – monthly power consumption for devices within an organisation group.
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Group comparisons | Daily – group power consumption in a daily format.
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Monthly – group power consumption in a monthly format.
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Over time | For locations, weekly – weekly power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by location.
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For organizational groups, weekly – weekly power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by organization groups.
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For locations, yearly (Report title: Power consumption for a year by location) – your annual power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by location.
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For organisational groups, yearly – your annual power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by organization groups.
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Power scheme compliance | Power scheme compliance by department – computers with power schemes by organization groups.
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Power states | For an individual client, daily – power states for a particular device over a given period of time.
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For an individual client, weekly – power states for a particular device over a particular week.
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For selected computers, weekly – the proportion of power states (on, off, standby, etc) on a daily basis over the duration of a week.
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For selected computers, yearly – the proportion of power states (on, off, standby, etc) on a weekly basis over the duration of a year.
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Sleepless clients | Problematic input devices – devices that are not able to enter sleep mode due to keyboard or mouse issues.
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Busy and sleepless processes – devices that are not able to enter sleep mode due to process issues.
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Shutdowns | Successful – devices that were successfully shutdown.
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Uncompleted – devices that were unsuccessfully shutdown.
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Wakeups | |||
Type | Category | Reports | |
Maintenance windows | Availability successes – wake-up activity successfully executed out for maintenance windows.
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Diagnostics – wake-up activity that failed to execute for maintenance windows.
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Manual wakeups | For clients – wake-up activites for individual computers aimed at Configuration Manager administrators.
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For collections – wake-up activities for Configuration Manager collections aimed at Configuration Manager administrators.
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WakeUp issues | Top 20 failing clients – the 20 WakeUp clients that are most commonly failing to wake.
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By servers – wake-up issues by WakeUp servers
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By subnet – wake-up issues by subnets.
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WakeUp summaries | For a subnet range – wake-up activities for a subnet range.
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Weekly overview – wake-up activity for a week.
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For Nomad deployments – wake-up activity for Nomad, a content distribution system.
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For ConfigMgr deployments – wake-up activity for ConfigMgr deployments.
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For a server (Report title: Wakeups for a server) – activities on the WakeUp server.
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Computer Reclaim | |||
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Rarely used computers by location
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Unused and rarely used computer counts by location, weekly – number of unused computers by location and week that could be reclaimed for other uses
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Unused computer counts by location, yearly – number of unused computers by location and month for a year
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Unused computers by location – specific unused computers
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Power Optimization | |||
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Summary – battery usage, modern devices that should be capable of smartphone-like behavior, and an overview of issues
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Issues | Batteries – details about computers that have batteries that are not performing well
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Connected standby – details about computers that cannot receive instant messages, Skype calls, etc. while sleeping though they should be able to
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Lowest power state – details about computers that do not go into a very low standby and thus have maximum battery life though they should
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Reboot Optimisation | |||
Type | Category | Reports | |
Summary – summary for pending reboots that are preventing security patches from being effective, slow reboots, and unexpected reboots
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Infrastructure | |||
Type | Category | Reports | |
Batch processing performance – list of NightWatchman batch processing details so that you can ensure there are no batch problems
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Client versions – list of NightWatchman client versions so that you can ensure all clients are at the correct version
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