• OFF - disables the gathering of user computer interaction data.
• ON - enables the gathering of user computer interaction data.

• ON – reporting is enabled and is forwarded to the server defined in REPORTINGSERVER or SECUREREPORTINGSERVER
• OFF – no information is sent to reporting server.

• NO/OFF/0 – no information is sent to reporting server.
• Any other value – enables the gathering of user computer Power/Battery data.

See also Understanding Power Optimization.

• NO/OFF/0 – no information is sent to reporting server.
• Any other value – enables the gathering of user computer reboot data.

Start of a Saturday alarm clock, in the format hour:minutes, for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Saturday's alarm clock for 08:00:

ACSATURDAYTIME=08:00

Start of a Sunday alarm clock in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Sunday's alarm clock for 08:00:

ACSUNDAYTIME=08:00

Start of a Thursday alarm clock in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Thursday's alarm clock for 08:00:

ACTHURSDAYTIME=08:00

Start of a Tuesday alarm clock in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Tuesday's alarm clock for 08:00:

ACTUESDAYTIME=08:00

• ON – turns monitors on during an alarm clock
• OFF – leaves the monitor in its original state.

Start of a Wednesday alarm clock in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Wednesday's alarm clock for 08:00:

ACWEDNESDAYTIME=08:00

• ON – install with advanced sleepless detection on.
• OFF – install with advanced sleepless detection off.

Toggles busy process detection on or off.

• ON– detects processes that affect the idleness of the system and resets the idle timer. If these are included in the sleepless exclusion list, they are prevented from stopping the computer going to sleep after a period of inactivity.
• OFF – ensures that busy processes on Windows XP and Windows Vista do not prevent a computer from sleeping, thereby reproducing the standard Windows 7 behavior.

• Must be between 0 and 3600 inclusive.

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive.

5

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive

• 0 – leaves the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate.
• 3 – sets the close action to power off.

For example, to set the close action for Friday's maintenance window putting a device on standby:

FRIDAYCLOSEACTION=1

Time for the start of a Friday maintenance window in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Friday's open time for 02:00

FRIDAYOPENTIME=02:00

The duration (in minutes) for the maintenance window on a Friday. For example, to set Friday's maintenance window to be 1 hour:

FRIDAYPERIODMINS=60

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive.

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive.

See CERTISSUER, CERTSUBJECT, REPORTINGSERVER and SECUREREPORTINGSERVER for the new methods of setting communications with the NightWatchman Management Center Web service.

• OFF – cancels shutdown when a shutdown script error is encountered.
• ON – ignores errors from the shutdown scripts. The shutdown continues. The user has the option to cancel shutdown.

• 0 – will not install the shutdown scripts.
• 1 – installs the shutdown scripts.

• 0 – will not install the driver.
• 1 – installs the driver.

• Must be between 5 and 1440 inclusive

• PASSIVE – NightWatchman performs the operation specified by SHUTDOWNACTION , providing no-one is currently logged on.
• ACTIVE – NightWatchman performs the operation specified by SHUTDOWNACTION . The user can postpone the operation. If the user is not present and the countdown timer dialog expires, the operation go ahead. The operation is stopped if scripts generate an error.
• FORCE – NightWatchman performs the operation specified by SHUTDOWNACTION . The operation is enforced. The countdown timer dialog has no cancel option. Errors generated by the shutdown scripts are ignored and the operation takes place regardless. Unsaved data may be lost. This operation cannot be postponed or cancelled.

• 0 – leaves the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate.
• 3 – sets the close action to power off.

For example, to set the close action for Monday putting a device on hibernate

MONDAYCLOSEACTION=2

Time for the start of a Monday maintenance window in the format our:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set the open time for Monday

MONDAYOPENTIME=02:00

Duration (in minutes) for Monday maintenance windows. For example, to set the maintenance window to 1 hour on Monday:

MONDAYPERIODMINS=60

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive.

Turns Configuration Manager job monitoring on or off.MONITORJOBS also controls the integration with WakeUp.

• ON
• OFF

NightWatchman.log

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\
Reporting\
NightWatchman\

The value modifies the power down behavior according to pending ConfigMgr jobs. It takes an integer that defines the number of minutes in the look-ahead window. We recommend that the PENDINGJOBWINDOWMINS value is set to slightly larger than the ConfigMgr polling refresh interval on the client. When PENDINGJOBWINDOWMINS=0, but MONITORJOBS=ON, the look-ahead functionality is turned off but the check for running ConfigMgr jobs will still happen.

To turn off ConfigMgr job monitoring altogether, set MONITORJOBS=OFF.

MONITORJOBS property must be set to ON (as it is by default) in order for this value to be used. The way that the shutdown behavior is modified is dependent on the type of shutdown, as shown below:

• Shutdown now – if either of the following is true, NightWatchman will abort its power down attempt.
  
  • Pending jobs exist scheduled to start within the specified look-ahead window starting from the current time.
  • There are current running jobs.
• Scheduled Shutdown – if either of the following is true, NightWatchman will abort its scheduled power down attempt, and will retry in the configured retry interval.
  
  • Pending jobs exist scheduled to start within the specified look-ahead window starting from the current time.
  • There are current running jobs.

• ON – activates the PRERUN script
• OFF – disables the PRERUN script

Controls the setting of a NightWatchman power scheme when the service starts and at user login

• AUTO – no longer supported as a separate option. If you setPOWERSCHEME=AUTO it will behave as if set to ON.
• ON – the NightWatchman power scheme is applied when the service starts and when a user logs in.
• OFF – the power scheme is not applied.

• Must be between 0 and 10 inclusive.

• Must be between 1 and 60 inclusive.

The behavior for running the runalways script at a NightWatchman initiated log-off or shutdown. This script is run in the context of the logged on user.

• ON – run the RUNALWAYS.vbs script.

1. If the script returns TRUE, continue with the shutdown or reboot.
2. If the script returns FALSE, cancel the shutdown or reboot.

• OFF – the script is not run.

OFF

• ON – the RunAlways script is run during a NightWatchman initiated hibernate or standby.
• OFF – The RunAlways script is not run during a NightWatchman initiated hibernate or standby.

Determines if the RunOnResumescript is run when the computer resumes from Hibernate or Sleep.

• ON – the RunOnResume script is run, if it exists, when the computer resumes from Hibernate or Sleep.
• OFF – the RunOnResume script is not run.

• 0 – leave the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate.
• 3 – sets the close action to power off.

For example, t o set the close action for Saturday's maintenance window to power off.

SATURDAYCLOSEACTION=3

Time for the start of a Saturday maintenance window in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Saturday's open time for 02:00:

SATURDAYOPENTIME=02:00

The duration (in minutes) for the maintenance window on a Saturday. For example, t o set Saturday's maintenance window to be 1 hour:

SATURDAYPERIODMINS=60

• Must be between 1 and 120 inclusive.

• Hibernate – puts the machine into hibernate mode.
• Standby – puts the machine into standby mode.
• Logoff– performs the log-off action only. No shut down performed. The machine will be left at the log-on prompt. This action has no power management value but can be used to enforce security.
• Normal – the system shuts down and power off.
• Poweroff – the system shuts down and power off. This is a synonym for Normal.
• Reboot – the system restarts. This action has no power management value other than to enforce good housekeeping practice; a daily reboot.

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive.

The process exclusions list. It takes a comma separated list of values where each value is the name of a process as it appears in the Sleepless and Busy processes report. When a NightWatchman client computer is at the point where it should enter a sleep state, NightWatchman checks any named processes on the sleepless exclusion list.

If the only processes preventing sleep are in the sleepless exclusion list NightWatchman will force the computer to enter into a sleep state regardless.

• 0 – leaves the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate
• 3 – sets the close action to power off

For example, to set the close action for Sunday's maintenance window to hibernate:

SUNDAYCLOSEACTION=2

The time for the start of a Sunday maintenance window in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Sunday's open time for 02:00:

SUNDAYOPENTIME=02:00

The duration (in minutes) for the maintenance window on a Sunday. For example, to set Sunday's maintenance window to 1 hour:

SUNDAYPERIODMINS=60

• ON – enables the notification area icon with 'Keep Active' enabled.
• ON1 – enables the notification area icon with 'Keep Active' disabled (greyed out).
• OFF – disables the notification area icon, unless a backup document exists for the logged on user.

• 0 – leaves the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate.
• 3 – sets the close action to power off.

For example, to set the close action for Thursday's maintenance window to standby:

THURSDAYCLOSEACTION=1

The time for the start of a Thursday maintenance window in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, to set Thursday's open time to 02:00:

THURSDAYOPENTIME=02:00

The duration (in minutes) for the maintenance window on a Thursday. For example, to set Thursday's maintenance window to 1 hour:

THURSDAYPERIODMINS=60

• 0 – leaves the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate.
• 3 – sets the close action to power off.

For example, t o set the close action for Tuesday's maintenance window to leave the computer in its awakened state:

TUESDAYCLOSEACTION=0

The time for the start of a Tuesday maintenance window in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, t o set Tuesday's open time to 02:00:

TUESDAYOPENTIME=02:00

The duration (in minutes) for the maintenance window on a Tuesday. For example, to set Tuesday's maintenance window to be 1 hour:

TUESDAYPERIODMINS=60

• ON – turns monitor on during an alarm clock and maintenance window.
• OFF – turns monitor off during an alarm clock and maintenance window.

• Zero turns power management off.
• Must be between 0 and 1440 inclusive.

The postponement time is governed by the RETRYINTERVAL .

• 0 – leaves the computer in its current state, i.e. do nothing.
• 1 – sets the close action to standby.
• 2 – sets the close action to hibernate.
• 3 – sets the close action to power off.

For example, t o set the close action for a Wednesday maintenance window to power-off:

WEDNESDAYCLOSEACTION=3

Start of a Wednesday maintenance window in the format hour:minutes for a 24 hour day. For example, t o set Wednesday's open time for 02:00

WEDNESDAYOPENTIME=02:00

The duration (in minutes) for the maintenance window on a Wednesday. For example, to set Wednesday's maintenance window to be 1 hour:

WEDNESDAYPERIODMINS=60