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NightWatchman Enterprise

Using the core components

NightWatchman Enterprise provides centralized computer power management and reporting which enables you to understand and control computer energy usage throughout your entire organization. It is made up of several components that work together to provide network-wide control of power policies. These features and more are described in greater detail in the following sections.

Using WakeUp with ConfigMgr

NightWatchman's WakeUp feature can be integrated with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr, or SCCM), please refer to How NightWatchman Enterprise works: Integrating WakeUp with Configuration Manager to find out more.

When WakeUp is integrated with ConfigMgr, you can use WakeUp to maximize the number of clients available for ConfigMgr deployments of:

  • Packages

  • Applications

  • Software updates

  • Operating systems and task sequences.

In addition, ConfigMgr console administrators can wake individual computers or collections of computers.

From NightWatchman 7.3, WakeUp can also be used with:

  • Phased deployments

  • ConfigMgr maintenance windows.

Using WakeUp with ConfigMgr Features
Packages

In ConfigMgr you can edit both existing and new Applications in the Application Management folder of the Software Library workspace.

Existing deployments:

  • Right-click the package's Deployments properties

  • In the displayed dialog box, on the Deployment Settings tab, ensure you check Send wake-up packets.

Package - Deployment Settings

New deployments:

Using the Deploy Software Wizard, ensure you check Send wake-up packets on the Deployment Settings tab.

Package - Deployment Settings Deploy Software Wizard
Applications

In ConfigMgr you can edit both existing and new Applications in the Application Management folder of the Software Library workspace.

Existing deployments:

  • Right-click the Application's Deployments properties

  • In the displayed dialog box, on the Deployment Settings tab, ensure you check Send wake-up packets.

Application - Deployment Settings

New deployments

When using the Deploy Software Wizard, ensure Send wake-up packets is checked on the Deployment Settings tab.

Note

The WakeUp option is only displayed in the dialog boxes for Required applications. It is not displayed for Available applications.

Application - Deployment Settings Deploy Software Wizard
Software Updates

In ConfigMgr you can edit software updates in the Software Updates folder of the Software Library workspace.

For an existing software update deployment:

  • Right-click the software update's Deployments properties

  • In the displayed dialog box, on the Deployment Settings tab, ensure you check Use Wake-on-LAN to wake up clients for required deployments.

Software updates
Operating Systems and Task Sequences

In ConfigMgr you can edit task sequences in the Operating Systems folder of the Software Library workspace.

For an existing deployment:

  • Right-click the relevant collection's Deployments properties

  • In the displayed dialog box, on the Deployment Settings tab, ensure you check Send wake-up packets.

Operating systems and task sequences - Deployment Settings

New deployments

When using the Deploy Software Wizard, ensure Send wake-up packets is checked on the Deployment Settings tab.

Note

The WakeUp option is only displayed in the dialog boxes for Required applications. It is not displayed for Available applications.

Operating systems and task sequences Deployment settings Deploy Software Wizard
Phased Deployments

ConfigMgr Wake-on-LAN methods do not support phased deployments, so there is no Send wake-up packets option for them.

However, you can still use WakeUp with phased deployments by adding WakeupsEnabled to the name or description of the deployment. The spelling is important but not the case.

For multi-phase deployments (manually configured), you must include WakeupsEnabled in the name or description of each of the manually configured phases.

With wakeups enabled, WakeUp will send wake-on-LAN packets to client computers targeted by each phase when the phase becomes active.

Phased Deployments - Create phased deployments Name
Maintenance Windows

A ConfigMgr Maintenance Window can trigger WakeUp to send wakeups by including WakeupsEnabled in the Maintenance Window name.

The wakeups are sent for clients included in the collection the Maintenance Window applies to.

Note

In ConfigMgr you can create, edit and delete Maintenance Windows for Device Collections in the Assets and Compliance workspace.

Maintenance Windows
Devices

You can set an action to wake a computer with or without a policy refresh by right clicking the device and from the displayed menu choosing 1E WakeUp and either Send WakeUp or Send WakeUp with Policy Refresh.

The same functionality is available in the ribbon at the top of the console.

Set WakeUp by Device
Collections

You can set an action to wake a computer with or without a policy refresh by right clicking a collection and from the displayed menu choosing 1E WakeUp and either Send WakeUp or Send WakeUp with Policy Refresh.

The same functionality is available in the ribbon at the top of the console.

Set WakeUp by Collection
Web WakeUp
Using a browser to connect to Web WakeUp for the first time

Web WakeUp enables specific computers to be woken up from a website. It is primarily aimed at the user who needs to access their work computer from a remote location. Web WakeUp integrates with NightWatchman Enterprise to provide computer search and status capabilities. This means that the computers can be turned off when not in use with NightWatchman, thereby saving power, and can be woken up whenever they are needed by the user wherever they are. Web WakeUp has an API that enables its wake up functionality to be used by 3rd party applications.

To access Web WakeUp, browse to the Web service at: http://<servername>/WebWakeUp/Default.aspx, where <servername> is the server where the Web WakeUp API is installed.

The Web WakeUp ActiveX control(WebWakeUpActiveX.msi) is supplied in a stand-alone installer. This means that the control can be rolled out across a network without requiring user intervention the first time they visit the Web WakeUp site.

There is a single installer property that controls whether the ActiveX control appears on the pre-approved list which allows it to be enabled in Internet Explorer without user intervention. To run this in unattended mode with pre approval, use: Msiexec /i WebWakeUpActiveX.msi PREAPPROVED=1 /qb

Property

Default value

Description

PREAPPROVED

1

Enable or disable addition to the pre-approved list without user intervention when browsing the site

  • 1 – enables addition to the pre-approved list

  • 0 – disables addition to the pre-approved list

If the Web WakeUp ActiveX control has not been previously installed by the network administrator, the first time you browse to the web service, you will be prompted to install the Web WakeUp software. Installing the ActiveX control enables Web WakeUp to confirm the name of the local computer, specifically for the purpose of registering the computer as the default wake up.

Web WakeUp ActiveX control

If you choose not to install the ActiveX control, Web WakeUp attempts to use reverse DNS lookup in order to derive the local computer name. The accuracy of this operation is dependent on DNS being correctly configured and up-to-date and may affect Web WakeUp's ability to wake the computer at a later date.

You can use reverse DNS lookup instead of the Web WakeUp ActiveX control by changing a setting as described in Web WakeUp server configuration: ActiveX usage.

Either the Web WakeUp ActiveX control or reverse DNS lookup is required by the Register page (tab). If neither method is available to you then you can choose to remove this page from the website, as decribed in Web WakeUp server configuration: website control.

The Web WakeUp home page

When you browse to the Web WakeUp home page for the first time, you can:

  • Register a computer for wake-up

  • Wake-up a registered computer

  • Search for the computer to wake-up

You can register up to 20 computers to wake-up. Registration adds the computer to the list of registered computers in the My Computers tab.

Registering a computer

To register a computer for wake-up:

  1. Click the Register tab.

  2. Enter the name of the computer.

  3. Click Register.

  4. Once the computer is registered, it is displayed at the bottom of the page.

To de-register a computer, click the trash icon to the right of its entry in list – it is removed immediately.

Waking-up registered computers

Once a computer has been registered for wake-up, the next time you browse My Computers, its current status is displayed on the page – the name and current status is displayed on the right and its status is shown on the icon on the left.

Waking up a computer

You can wake a registered computer from either the off or unknown states – clicking Wake up initiates a wake-up. The wake-up signal is sent to the computer and Web WakeUp periodically checks to see if it is awake. These checks are done over a fixed period; if the computer has not responded before the period finishes, its status is set to unknown. When a registered computer has been woken-up or is already awake, you can remote to it by clicking its name from the list of computers.

Remote access to a woken-up computer
Waking a computer by name

If you want to wake-up a computer that is not on your registered list, you can do this as long as you know the exact name of the computer or its domain name.

To wake-up an unregistered computer:

  1. Enter the name for the computer in the text box. Alternatively, use the search feature to look for a computer to wake up.

    Waking-up an unregistered computer

  2. Click Wake up.

  3. If you entered an incorrect computer name, you will be prompted to update the name and the status icon changes to reflect the error.

    Prompt to notify an incorrect computer name

    If the wake-up is successful, the status icon changes to reflect it.

    Wake-up successful
Searching for computers to wake-up

You can search for a computer to wake-up if you are unsure of its name. The search text does not allow the use of wildcards but it does allow a single search string to be used that will match against the domain and computer name fields separately. The rules that govern the search are:

  • Searches are not case sensitive

  • The backslash (\) separates the domain name search string from the computer name search string. If you omit the backslash, the search looks for the computer name only. The format of the search string is DomainSearch\MachineSearch.

  • Empty search strings return all entries

Note

The description is slightly different when Web WakeUp is running in authorised mode where the search only returns computers you are authorized to view.

The search matches the string against characters in the relevant field. If you were looking for XP, it will return computers whose netBIOS names contain the letters XP in that order – XP01034, Experiece1, vaxpac89, etc. Searching for domains is done by adding the domain at the start followed by a backslash. If you were looking for M\1, it will return all computers in domains that contain the letter M and the computers in those domain that contains the number 1.

If you want to return all computers in all the domains, leave the search string empty. However, the search is limited to displaying only 30 rows and the results are not paged. So if the computer is not listed, you need to refine your search. Your Web WakUp administrator can increase the number of rows returned by setting MaxMachines in the NWM,ServiceHost.exe file to the maximum 500 but this is likely to impact page loading time is a general search is run on a large network.

When you run a search, computers whose names match the search string are displayed in the Computers found: list.

Searching for computers

To wake a computer from the search results, click the name of the computer. A timer starts to indicate that the wake-up is taking place.

Timer indicates that a wake-up is in progress

When it counts down to 0, the wake-up times out and the status icon changes – a timeout does not necessarily mean that there is an error as the computer may just have been slow in starting up. If a timeout occurs, try again after a reasonable time. If it still fails to wake-up after repeated tries, contact you network administrator to see if there is an issue with the computer or network.

Timeout occured
Status icons

Icon are used to identity the status of registered computers and the action you can take.

Icon

Explanation

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The computer is awake.

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The computer is not wake. Click the icon to initiate a wake-up.

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A wake-up is taking place.

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A timeout occurred when you tried to wake-up the computer and Web WakeUp is unable to determine its state. Try again after a reasonable time.

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You entered an incorrect computer name. Try again.

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There is an issue communicating with the computer due to a network issue or with the WakeUp server. Contact your network administrator to resolve the issue.

These icons, displayed in the registered computers list under the My Computers tab, show their respective status:

Icon

Explanation

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The computer is awake. Click the name of the computer in the list to start a remote session with it.

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The computer is not awake. Click the icon to initiate a wake-up.

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A timeout occurred when you tried to wake-up the computer and Web WakeUp is unable to determine its state. Try again after a reasonable time.

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You entered an incorrect computer name. Try again.

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There is an issue communication with the computer due to a network issue or with the WakeUp server. Contact your network administrator to resolve the issue.

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.

Nightwatchman report categories

If the website is installed locally, use local host instead its server name.

Nightwatchman reports are categorised as follows:

Power Management

Type

Category

Reports

Savings

As compared to a baseline

Weekly – a before and after comparison of your savings in a weekly format

Parameters for the weekly savings against a baseline report

  • Exported as NWM_SavingsAsComparedToABaselineWeekly.xls

  • Previously known as Weekly NightWatchman savings and was found under the Savings reporting group for Savings from power behavior

Yearly – a before and after comparison of your savings in an annual format.

Parameters for the annual savings against a baseline report

  • Exported as NWM_SavingsAsComparedToABaselineYearly.xls

  • Previously known as Yearly NightWacthman savings and was found under Savings reporting group for Savings from power behavior

Utility rebate data – a before and after comparison of your savings to submit to your utility provider to claim rebates

Parameters for the utility rebate data report

  • Exported as NWM_UtilityRebateData.xls

  • Previously known as Yearly utility provider savings – kWh and was found under the Savings reporting group for Utility rebate

Estimates

Cost savings – an estimate of your cost savings without a baseline comparison.

Parameters for the cost savings report

  • Exported as NWM_CostSavingsEstimates.xls

  • Previously known as Cost savings, monthly and was found under the Savings reporting group for Power savings estimates

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.

Parameters for the potential daily power savings and costs report

  • Exported as NWM_PotentialPowerAndCostSavingsDaily.xls

  • Previously known as Power saving estimator, daily and was found under the Savings reporting group for Power savings estimates

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.

Parameters for the potential monthly power savings and costs report

  • Exported as NWM_PotentialPowerAndCostSavingsMnthly.xls

  • Previously known as Power saving estimator, monthly and was found under the Savings reporting group for Power savings estimates

Power savings – your estimated power savings.

Parameters for the power savings estimates report

  • Exported as NWM_PowerSavingsEstimates.xls

  • Previously known as kWh savings, monthly and was found under the Savings reporting group for Power savings estimates

Others

Savings by overriding sleepless processes.

Parameters for the savings by overriding sleepless processes report

  • Exported as NWM_SavingsByOverridingSleeplessProcesses.xls

  • Previously known as Weekly sleepless savings and was found under the Savings reporting group for Savings from sleepless

Consumption

By computer, grouped by organizational groups

Daily – daily power consumption for devices within an organization group.

Parameters for the daily consumption report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptionbycomputerdaily.xls

  • Previously known as Individual department/computer report and was found under the Power consumption and costs by department/computer reports group

Monthly – monthly power consumption for devices within an organisation group.

Parameters for the monthly consumption report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptionbycomputermonthly.xls

  • Previously known as Monthly individual department/computer report and was found under the Power consumption and costs by department/computer reports group

Group comparisons

Daily – group power consumption in a daily format.

Parameters for the daily power consumption group comparison report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptiongroupcomparisonsdaily.xls

  • Previously known as Cross reference report from daily data and was found under the Energy, Cost and Emissions reporting group for Cross reference

Monthly – group power consumption in a monthly format.

Parameters for the monthly power consumption group comparison report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptiongroupcomparisonsmonthly.xls

  • Previously known as Cross reference report from monthly data and was found under the Energy, Cost and Emissions reporting group for Cross reference

Over time

For locations, weekly – weekly power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by location.

Parameters for the weekly power consumption by location report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptionforaweekbylocations.xls

  • Peviously known as Weekly energy, cost and emissions by location and was found under the Energy, Cost and Emissions reporting group for Energy usage summaries

For organizational groups, weekly – weekly power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by organization groups.

Parameters for the weekly power consumption by organization groups report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptionforaweekbyorganizationalgroups.xls

  • Previously known as Weekly energy, cost and emissions by organization and was found under the Energy, Cost and Emissions reporting group for Energy usage summaries

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.

Parameters for the annual power consumption by location report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptionforayearbylocations.xls

  • Previously known as Yearly energy, cost and emissions by location and was found under the Energy, Cost and Emissions reporting drop for Energy usage summaries

For organisational groups, yearly – your annual power consumption in terms of kWh, costs and environmental impact by organization groups.

Parameters for the annual power consumption by organization groups report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerconsumptionforayearbyorganizationalgroups.xls

  • Previously known as Yearly energy, cost and emissions by organization was found under the Energy, Cost and Emissions reporting group for Energy usage summaries

Power scheme compliance

Power scheme compliance by department – computers with power schemes by organization groups.

Parameters for the power scheme compliance by department report

  • Exported as NWM_Powerschemecompliancebydepartment.xls

Power states

For an individual client, daily – power states for a particular device over a given period of time.

Parameters for the daily power states for a computer

  • Exported as NWM_Powerstatesforacomputerdaily.xls

  • Previously known as Daily power state activity and found under the Operational reporting group for Power state

For an individual client, weekly – power states for a particular device over a particular week.

Parameters for the weekly power states for a computer

  • Exported as NWM_Powerstatesforacomputerweekly.xls

  • Previously known as Timeline for an individual client and found under the Operational reporting group for Power state

For selected computers, weekly – the proportion of power states (on, off, standby, etc) on a daily basis over the duration of a week.

Parameters for weekly power states for computers

  • Exported as NWM_Powerstatesforcomputersweekly.xls

  • Previously known as Weekly time in state and found under the Operational reporting group for Power state

For selected computers, yearly – the proportion of power states (on, off, standby, etc) on a weekly basis over the duration of a year.

Parameters for annual power states for computers

  • Exported as NWM_Powerstatesforcomputersyearly.xls

  • Previously known as Yearly time in state and found under the Operational reporting group for Power state

Sleepless clients

Problematic input devices – devices that are not able to enter sleep mode due to keyboard or mouse issues.

Parameters for problematic input devices report

  • Exported as NWM_Sleeplessnesscausedbyinputdevices.xls

  • Previously known as Untrusted input devices and found under the Operational reporting group for Sleepless client

Busy and sleepless processes – devices that are not able to enter sleep mode due to process issues.

Parameters for busy processes report

  • Exported as NWM_Sleeplessnesscausedbyprocessissues.xls

  • Previously known as Busy and sleepless processes and found under the Operational reporting group for Sleepless client

Shutdowns

Successful – devices that were successfully shutdown.

Parameters for the successful shutdowns report

  • Exported as NWM_Successfulshutdowns.xls

  • Previously found under the Operational reporting group for Power down performance

Uncompleted – devices that were unsuccessfully shutdown.

Parameters for the uncompleted shutdowns report

  • Exported as NWM_Uncompletedshutdowns.xls

  • Previously known as Uncompleted shutdowns and was found under the Operational reporting group for Power down performance

Wakeups

Type

Category

Reports

Maintenance windows

Availability successes – wake-up activity successfully executed out for maintenance windows.

Parameters for the successful maintenance windows report

  • Exported as NWM_Maintenancewindowavailabilitysuccesses.xls

  • Was previously found under the Operational reporting group for Maintenance windows

Diagnostics – wake-up activity that failed to execute for maintenance windows.

Parameters for the maintenance windows diagnostics report

  • Exported as NWM_Maintenancewindowdiagnostics.xls

  • Was previously found under the Operational reporting group for Maintenance windows

Manual wakeups

For clients – wake-up activites for individual computers aimed at Configuration Manager administrators.

Parameters for the manual wake-up for clients report

  • Exported as NWM_Manualwakeupsforclients.xls

  • Previously known as Manual machine WakeUp statistics and was found under the WakeUp and power down reporting group for Manual WakeUps

For collections – wake-up activities for Configuration Manager collections aimed at Configuration Manager administrators.

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  • Exported as NWM_Manualwakeupsforcollections.xls

  • Previously known as Manual collection WakeUp statistics and was found under the WakeUp and power down reporting group for Manual WakeUps

WakeUp issues

Top 20 failing clients – the 20 WakeUp clients that are most commonly failing to wake.

Parameters for the top 20 failing wakeup clients report

  • Exported as NWM_Top20failingWakeUpclients.xls

  • Previously known as Top 20 Machines with the highest failures and was found under the WakeUp and power down reporting group for WakeUp failures

By servers – wake-up issues by WakeUp servers

Parameters for wakeup issues by server

  • Exported as NWM_WakeUpissuesbyserver.xls

  • Previously known as Server monthly historical WakeUp failure percentages and was found under the WakeUp and power down reporting group for WakeUp failures

By subnet – wake-up issues by subnets.

Parameters for wakeup issues by subnet

  • Exported as NWM_WakeUpissuesbysubnet.xls

  • Previously known as Subnet monthly historical WakeUp failure percentages and was found under the WakeUp and power down reporting group for WakeUp failures

WakeUp summaries

For a subnet range – wake-up activities for a subnet range.

Parameters for the wakeups for a subnet report

  • Exported as NWM_Wakeupsforasubnetrange.xls

  • Previously known as Summary for a subnet range and was found under the Operational reporting group for WakeUp summaries

Weekly overview – wake-up activity for a week.

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  • Exported as NWM_Wakeupsforaweek.xls

  • Previously known as Weekly WakeUp summary and was found under the Operational reporting group for WakeUp summaries

For Nomad deployments – wake-up activity for Nomad, a content distribution system.

Parameters for the wakeup for Nomad deployments

  • Exported as NWM_WakeupsforNomaddeployments.xls

  • Previously known as WakeUp summary for Nomad deployment and was found under the WakeUp and power down reporting group for ActiveEfficiency integration

For ConfigMgr deployments – wake-up activity for ConfigMgr deployments.

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  • Exported as NWM_WakeupsforConfigMgrdeployments.xls

For a server (Report title: Wakeups for a server) – activities on the WakeUp server.

Parameters for wakeups per server

  • Exported as NWM_Wakeupsforaserver.xls

  • Previously known as Summary per WakeUp server and was found under the Operational reporting group for WakeUp summaries

Computer Reclaim

Type

Category

Reports

Rarely used computers by location

Parameters for the rarely used computers by location report

  • Exported as NWM_Unusedcomputercountsbylocationweekly.xls

Unused and rarely used computer counts by location, weekly – number of unused computers by location and week that could be reclaimed for other uses

Parameters for the weekly used and rarely used computers by location report

  • Exported as NWM_Unusedcomputercountsbylocationweekly.xls

  • Previously known as Weekly hardware utilization by location and was found under the Operational reporting group for Hardware utilization

Unused computer counts by location, yearly – number of unused computers by location and month for a year

Parameters for the annual unused computers by location report

  • Exported as NWM_Unusedcomputercountsbylocationyearly.xls

  • Previously known as Yearly hardware utilization by location and was found under the Operational reporting group for Hardware utilization

Unused computers by location – specific unused computers

Parameters for the unused computers by location report

  • Exported as NWM_Unusedcomputersbylocation.xls

  • Was previously found under the Operational reporting group for Hardware utilization

Power Optimization

Type

Category

Reports

Summary – battery usage, modern devices that should be capable of smartphone-like behavior, and an overview of issues

Parameters for the power optimization summary report

  • Exported as NWM_PowerOptimzationsummary.xls

Issues

Batteries – details about computers that have batteries that are not performing well

Parameters for the power optimisation battery issues report

  • Exported as NWM_PowerOptimizationbatteryissues.xls

  • Previously known as Battery Details and and was found under the Power Optimization reporting group for Power Optimization Issues

Connected standby – details about computers that cannot receive instant messages, Skype calls, etc. while sleeping though they should be able to

Parameters for the connected standby issues report

  • Exported as NWM_PowerOptimizationConnectedStandbyissues.xls

  • Was previously found under the Power Optimization reporting group for Power Optimization Issues

Lowest power state – details about computers that do not go into a very low standby and thus have maximum battery life though they should

Parameters for the power optimization lowest power state report

  • Exported as NWM_PowerOptimizationlowestpowerstateissues.xls

  • Previously known as Lowest Power State and was found under the Power Optimization reporting group for Power Optimization Issues

Reboot Optimisation

Type

Category

Reports

Summary – summary for pending reboots that are preventing security patches from being effective, slow reboots, and unexpected reboots

Parameters for the reboot optimization summary report

  • Exported as NWM_RebootOptimizationsummary.xls

  • Previously known as Reboot Summary

Infrastructure

Type

Category

Reports

Batch processing performance – list of NightWatchman batch processing details so that you can ensure there are no batch problems

Parameters for the batch processing performance report

  • Exported as NWM_NightWatchmanbatchprocessperformance.xls

  • Was previously found under the Operational reporting group for Batch performance

Client versions – list of NightWatchman client versions so that you can ensure all clients are at the correct version

Parameters for the client versions report

  • Exported e NWM_NightWatchmanclientversions.xls

  • Was previously found under the Operational reporting group for Inventory

Enterprise View

Enterprise View is a web-based business intelligence dashboard that provides overviews of energy consumption and computer-related information from your network. You can customise the dashboard by choosing which tiles to display from a pre-defined list. It uses information already held in the reporting database to populate the tiles.

Accessing Enterprise View

To access Enterprise View, navigate to: http://<servername>/enterpriseview/ where <servername> is the name of the server where the Enterprise View software is installed.

Enterprise View requires Microsoft Silverlight – if it is not already installed, you will be prompted to do so.

Silverlight placeholder

(If you see a placeholder instead of the Silverlight logo then you do not have access to the internet and you will need to download the Silverlight installer from another computer. All versions of Silverlight from version 3.0 are supported by Enterprise View).

To continue from this point:

  1. Click Install Microsoft Silverlight.

    Install Microsoft Silverlight

  2. Click Run.

  3. When all the files are extracted (a dialog displays its progress), the installer starts. When the installer starts running, a dialog displays its progress.

  4. When all the files are extracted, the installer starts.

    Install Microsoft Silverlight

  5. Click the Install now button.

  6. When installation has completed successfully, the success success displays. You may need to refresh the browser before the Enterprise View home page is displayed.

Enterprise View home page

Once Silverlight is installed, navigating to the Enterprise View URL displays the home page. The first time the user navigates to the home page, getting started information is displayed.

The Enterprise View home page

To add tiles to the dashboard:

  1. Click the Tools button at the top-right of the page to display the tile configuration page. The list of tiles are the defaults provided with NightWatchman Management Center. You can select up to eight tiles to display on the dashboard.

    Enterprise View

  2. Click the checkbox to the left of the tile's icon.

  3. When you have selected your tiles (8 maximum) click Accept to populate the dashboard.

    Adding tiles to the Enterprise View dashboard

  4. Once the tiles are on the home page, you can re-arrange them by dragging their title bars, expand them to view the details of a particular tile or close it.

    Re-arranging tiles in the Enterprise View dashboard
Setting up the dashboard tiles

After you install the Enterprise View website, add the dashboard tiles and and configure their datasources. Tile definitions are provided when installing supported 1E applications and must be copied to the correct location in the Enterprise View website and manually configured before are available to users. When you install one of the supported applications, either NightWatchman Management Center or NightWatchman Server Edition, a folder is created in the product's installation directory which contains the XML definitions for the tiles associated with that product. The folder is relative to the product's installation directory: %installdir%\EnterpriseView

Copy the file definitions to the Enterprise View installation directory as follows:

  • On 32-bit platforms – C:\Program Files\1E\Enterprise View\Dashboard.Web\Source

  • On 64-bit platforms – C:\Program Files (x86)\1E\Enterprise View\Dashboard.Web\Source

Each of the tiles requires a connection to a data source (which can be from an SQL database or a localized XML file) in order to display information. The data sources are defined in an XML file and is located at: %installdir%\1E\Enterprise View\Dashboard.Web\Source\DataSources.xml

  • To configure an SQL data source for NightWatchman, add a definition DataSources element. For example:

    <DataSource Name="NightWatchman">
    <ConnectionProperties DataProvider="SQL">
        <Value>
            <![CDATA[ Server=<ServerName>;Database=AgilityFrameworkReporting;Trusted_Connection=True;pooling=false ]]> 
        </Value>
    </ConnectionProperties>
</DataSource>

    where <ServerName> is the server where the NightWatchman Management Center database is installed.

  • To configure an SQL data source for NightWatchman Server edition, add a definition to the DataSources element. For example:

    <DataSource Name="NightWatchmanServer">
    <ConnectionProperties DataProvider="SQL">
        <Value>
            <![CDATA[ Server=<ServerName>;Database=NightWatchmanServerEdition;Trusted_Connection=True;pooling=false ]]> 
        </Value>
    </ConnectionProperties>
</DataSource>

    where <ServerName> is the server where the NightWatchman Server Edition database is installed.

  • To configure an XML data source, add the following XML snippet to the DataSources element:

    <DataSource Name="LOCAL">
    <ConnectionProperties DataProvider="XML">
      <Value>
        <![CDATA["NONE"]]>
      </Value>
    </ConnectionProperties>
</DataSource>

A tile may be duplicated provided its title is different. The default tiles are:

Title

Description

File

Notes

Savings to date

Displays total savings since NightWatchman was installed and based on all machines consuming electricity (state = ON) for 24 hours. Savings are displayed in terms of currency, C02 emissions, trees and gallons of Oil

NWMSavingsToDate.xml

Uses spNWM_Dashboard_SavingsToDate.

  1. To display values that match the NightWatchman savings web reports, edit the @powerBehavior variable in the XML to match the name of a power behaviour and also the description.

  2. To report on specific parts of the client location and/or Organization tier structures, edit the @locationTierId and/or @organizationTierId variables. Query the tbAFT_DimensionTier table for the TierID.

  3. To change the start date for the tile, for example to the date when power policies were first applied, modify the InstalledDate value in tbNWM_Dimension_GlobalSettings table. Set the date to the first of the month.

Daily power cost

Displays a chart of the actual cost per day as reported by NightWatchman for the last 10 days.

NWMDailyPowerCost.xml

Uses spNWM_Dashboard_DailyPowerCost.

  1. To display values that match the NightWatchman savings web reports, edit the @powerBehavior variable in the XML to match the name of a power behavior.

  2. To change the number of days, edit the @begindate variable in the XML and also the description.

Monthly Savings

Shows savings for all of the PCs in all departments and all buildings for the last six months.

NWMMonthlySavings.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_MonthlySavings. To display values that match the NightWatchman Savings web reports, edit the @powerBehavior variable in the XML to match the name of a power behavior created using the NightWatchman Savings reports. To change the number of months, edit the @begindate variable in the XML, and also the description. To report on specific parts of the Client Location and/or Organization tier structures, you can create @locationTierId and/or @organizationTierId variables and pass these to the stored procedure in the same way as the 'Savings to date' tile.

Top energy consuming departments

Displays the top 10 departments in descending order of energy cost per capita. Provides a way of monitoring which departments cost the most in terms of PC energy usage and are candidates for more stringent energy management.

NWMEnergyCostPerCapita.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_MonthlyEnergyCostPerCapita. To report on a specific part of the Client Organization tier structure, you can edit @locationTierId and/or @tierId variable. The number of departments reported is hard-coded in the stored procedure.

Top 10 buildings by cost

Displays a list of the top 10 buildings where the cost of electricity usage is the highest. Reporting data from NightWatchman and current applied location-based tariffs are used to calculate power consumption and cost figures.

NWMTopTenBuildingsByCost.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_TopTenBuildingsByCost. To report on a specific part of the Client Location tier structure, you can edit @locationTierId and/or @tierId variable. The number of buildings reported is hard-coded in the stored procedure.

Installed operating systems

Displays a pie chart of the operating systems reported by the NightWatchman agent.

NWMInstalledOperatingSystems.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_OperatingSystems. There are no configuration options.

Percentage of PCs left on after hours

This tile shows the percentage of monitored PCs that are left on after configured hours over weekdays and weekends. The chart assumes that computers are on overnight if they are on at any time before 9AM or after 5PM on weekdays or at any time over the weekend.

NWMPercentagePcOnAfterHours.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_PercentagePcOnAfterHours. The number of variables may be edited as described in the XML. If modified then you should also update the tile description.

Energy star compliance

Shows a percentage of machines that have a compliant active power scheme in effect as reported by NightWatchman client. You should aim to be 100% compliant and NightWatchman power policies should be set to achieve this.

NWMPowerSchemeCompliance.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_PowerSchemeCompliance. The XML contains power scheme values used for Energy Star Compliance. You can edit the values to match your preferred compliance values, but if you do so you should change the tile's title.

Greenest hardware types

Displays a maximum of 3 desktop and 3 laptop hardware types that consume the least amount of energy in their relevant categories. This is only taken from hardware that has reported to NightWatchman in the last 90 days.

NWMTopFiveHardwareTypes.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_GreenestHardwareTypes. To report a different number of hardware types edit the @topDeskTop and @topLapTop variables and modify the tile description. The stored procedure is hard-coded to 90 days and a maximum of 5 types each.

Most Consuming Hardware Types

Displays a maximum of 10 hardware types made up of any combination of desktops and laptops that consume the most amount of energy. This is only for hardware that have reported in the last 90 days.

NWMTopFiveWorstHardwareTypes.xml

This tile uses spNWM_Dashboard_WorstHardwareTypes. To report a different number of hardware types edit the @topDeskTop and @topLapTop variables and modify the tile description. The stored procedure is hard-coded to 90 days and a maximum of 5 types each.

NightWatchman Management Center stored procedure permissions

If the NightWatchman Management Center database is installed on a different server to the computer where the Enterprise View web application is running, modify the permissions of the respective stored procedures in the NightWatchman Management Center database.

To do this:

  1. Modify the SetSchemaObjectPermissions.sql file.

    • On 32-bit platforms – C:\Program Files\1E\NightWatchman Management Center\EnterpriseView

    • On 64-bit platforms – C:\Program Files (x86)\1E\NightWatchman Management Center\EnterpriseView

  2. Set the string %aspuser% to <DOMAIN> <DASHBOARDSERVER>$ where <DOMAIN> is the name of the domain of the computer hosting the Enterprise View web application and <DASHBOARDSERVER> is the name of the server running the Enterprise View web application.

  3. Execute the file against the NightWatchman Management Center database.

The NightWatchman Agent and 1E Agent for Mac

The NightWatchman Agent and 1E Agent for Mac provide comparable functionality to each other for shutdown and restart of computers. The NightWatchman Agent is for Windows computers while the 1E Agent for Mac is for Macintosh computers.

NightWatchman Agent

On Windows, the NightWatchman icon in the system tray indicates its current status – if a shutdown has been scheduled or deferred and when backups have been made.

To interact with NightWatchman:

  1. On the system tray, right-click the NightWatchman icon.

    230733674.png

  2. From its context menu, you can choose from the following:

  • Keep Active – keeps the system free from NightWatchman power down events for a period of time. You are prompted to choose how long to keep your computer active.

    This option is useful when deadlines are imminent and the machine is liable to be used out of normal office hours or when a particular running task will take a long time to complete.

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    Keep Active only works as long as you remain logged on – as soon as you log-off, NightWatchman reverts to its default behavior It does not work for NightWatchman events where logoffaction=FORCE or when you choose the Shutdown Now... option.

    The default time is 1 hour.

  • Shutdown Now... – initiates an immediate shutdown and closes all open applications. You will be prompted to save your work.

  • View Backup List – displays a list of documents automatically saved by NightWatchman. You can opt to view, keep or reject these files. There are two file types to take into account:

    • Previous saved files (those that were being edited at the time of the shutdown) – when viewing these types of files, open the last saved file and the NightWatchman backup file and review the changes. Close both these files before you choose to keep or reject them. If you keep the file, it replaces your last saved file with NightWatchman's backup. If you reject it, your last saved file is preserved. The backup history is purged in both cases.

    • New files (new files that were created but not yet saved at the time of the shutdown) – if you open these types of file to review, ensure you close them before you choose to keep or reject them. If you keep the file, a Save As dialog opens for you to save the file. If you reject it, the file is not saved. The backup history is purged in both cases.

    The Information: field provides details about the selected backup as follows:

    Your backup history

    • The root name for the file

    • The path of the last saved version of the file (not applicable to new files not previously saved)

    • The relative sizes of the last saved version and the NightWatchman backup

    • A comparison of the dates of the last saved version and the NightWatchman backup of the file. A warning occurs if the last saved version is more recent than the NightWatchman backup

    • A summary of the actions for the backup.

    NightWatchman icon states are displayed in the system tray.

    230733655.png – no scheduled shutdown (230733657.png backup notification)

    230733656.png – power down scheduled (230733659.png backup notification)

    230733658.png – power down deferred (230733660.png backup notification)

    The most recent backups are towards the top of the Backup History tree. This tree is sorted by dates which enables you to see when they occurred. A warning occurs when the NightWatchman backup file has an older date than the last saved file. This information is vital when assessing what to do with the changes as you should consider the fact that the changes were made to a document prior to the one currently saved.

  • View User Log – displays the User Log dialog. It provides a summarized account of the recent actions by NightWatchman, such as the time of a successful shutdown and a one-line summary of errors encountered.

  • About NightWatchman – information about the current of NightWatchman agent.

Shutting down NightWatchman

The modes to shutdown NightWatchman are:

  • Passive – if NightWatchman is set to work in passive mode, it will not shut down devices where a schedule shutdown begins if users are logged-on. They will see a balloon on the system tray notifying them that a power down is due. NightWatchman can be configured to retry later to see if the user has logged-off. If they have, it shuts down the computer at that point.

  • Active – If NightWatchman is set to work in active mode, users currently logged-on see the Countdown dialog when a scheduled shutdown begins. Users can close applications and save documents up to the point the timer expires.

    The Countdown dialog

    • If they click Shut Down Now or allows the countdown to elapse, NightWatchman closes all open applications and saves any work-in-progress before shutting the computer down

    • If they click Shut Down Later, NightWatchman defers the shutdown and re-tries again later

  • Force – if NightWatchman is set to work in force mode, users currently logged-on see the Countdown dialog when a scheduled shutdown begins but they have no option to defer or cancel the event

1E Agent for Mac

On a Mac, the NightWatchman icon on the menu bar indicates its current status – if a shutdown has been scheduled or deferred and when backups have been made.

The NightWatchman icon on the Mac status bar

To interact with NightWatchman:

  1. On the menu bar, right click the NightWatchman icon.

  2. From its context menu, you can choose:

    • Keep Active – keeps the system free from NightWatchman power down events for a period of time. You are prompted to choose how long to keep your computer active.

      This option is useful when deadlines are imminent and the machine is liable to be used out of normal office hours or when a particular running task will take a long time to complete. When multiple users are logged on and one user requests a Keep Active period, that period is enforced for all users even if the requestor logs off. Keep Active does not work for NightWatchman events where the logoffaction is set to force or where the user actively chooses the Shutdown Now... menu option.

      NightWatchman keep active properties

      The default time is 1 hour. The icon changes to indicate the keep active event.

    • Shut Down Now... – initiates an immediate shutdown and closes all open applications. Click OK or Cancel to abort the operation. If a NightWatchman maintenance window is currently active the Shutdown Now option will not work.

    • Backup List – when NightWatchman makes a back up of your documents on a power-down event, the icon changes on the menu bar. Clicking the icon displays the Backup History dialog – file information and comments help you decide if you want keep the file.

      Mac backup history

  3. To view the contents of the file, click View.

  4. To keep the backed-up file, click Keep and complete the Save As dialog

    Keeping the backup file

  5. To remove the backed-up file, click Reject. You will be prompted with a warning

    Removing the backup file

    NightWatchman status icons are displayed in the menu bar.

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    - no scheduled shutdown

    230733664.png

    – scheduled shutdown on

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    – scheduled shutdown deferred

  6. About NightWatchman – information about the current of NightWatchman agent.

Shutting down NightWatchman

The modes to shutdown NightWatchman are:

  • Passive – if NightWatchman is set to work in passive mode, it will not shut down devices where a schedule shutdown begins if users are logged-on and there are no interruption to users. NightWatchman can be configured to retry later to see if the user has logged-off. If they have, it shuts down the computer at that point.

  • Active – If NightWatchman is set to work in active mode, users currently logged-on see the Countdown dialog when a scheduled shutdown begins. Users can close applications and save documents up to the point the timer expires.

    Active mode countdown dialog

    1. If they click Shut Down Now or allow the countdown to elapse, NightWatchman closes all open applications and saves any work-in-progress before shutting the computer down

    2. If they click Shut Down Later, NightWatchman defers the shutdown and re-tries again later

  • Force – if NightWatchman is set to work in force mode, users currently logged-on see the Countdown dialog when a scheduled shutdown begins but they have no option to defer or cancel the event

    Force mode countdown dialog
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