Energywise Orchestrator PC Mgmt problem

[Konstantinos Gerakaris]

Hello all.

I'm currently testing the Orchestrator and i've installed the agent on a WinXP PC.

I've created on the Orchestrator a policy which instructs the PC to turn off the monitor after 5 min. and sleep after 15 min.

Although the first action succeeds, the second never happens. The PC never goes to sleep.

It even fails if i try from the "Manage Devices" tab to set the Power Level to Sleep.

Anyone else faced the same problem?

Thanks in advance!

[Emmanuel Tychon · Accepted solution]

Hello --

This can happen if the PC is the only one managed by Orchestrator in its subnet, or if it gets elected as a "proxy".

In that case, the PC will never be put on sleep mode because we may need it later to send a "wake on lan" packet. You can configure this machine in Orchestrator to never be elected as a proxy.

Also make sure your server is not in baseline mode.

Thanks,

Emmanuel

[Konstantinos Gerakaris]

Hello Emmanuel.

Thanks a lot for your reply!

Indeed after I removed the WOW Proxy option from the PC, it did go to sleep based on the Power Scheme.

Best regards

Kostas

[Emmanuel Tychon]

Great news Kostas, thanks for following up and marking the question as answered.

Cheers,

Emmanuel