The document discusses how a power audit is performed using SyAM Software Management Utilities. It describes how systems are discovered on the network and organized into groups. During data collection, actual power usage is compared to desired usage hours to calculate potential savings. After applying power management settings, achieved savings are calculated by comparing actual usage to the original baseline. The software allows viewing power usage reports, charts, and savings details across systems, locations and departments. Performing a power audit involves configuring settings and creating a power audit wizard to define the scope and schedule of the audit.

1. SyAM Software
Management Utilities
Performing a Power Audit

2. Power Auditor – How it Works
Systems are discovered on the network, and organized into groups. For each group of systems a
range of hours is defined to specify the time those systems are expected to be powered on, and
when they are normally shut down.
During the data collection phase, the Power Auditor is in Identified Savings mode. When we
calculate Identified Savings, we compare the number of hours that a system is actually powered
on with the number of hours we would like it to be running.
Once the baseline of data has been collected, we can move into Achieved Savings mode. Using
Management Utilities along with SyAM System Client and SyAM System Area Manager, we apply
Power Management settings to the systems so they will be powered off at a desired time for
each day of the week.
Achieved Savings is calculated by comparing the actual powered on hours with the baseline of
data that was collected during the Identified Savings period, before power management was
implemented. The result is a report of what has actually been saved by enforcing power
management policies.
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3. Power Auditor - Dashboard
Enterprise Overview of Real-time Power Savings data with reporting at
location, department and system levels
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4. Power Auditor – Historical Charting
User configurable charting by systems, days, hours or wattage enabling power budgeting
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5. Power Auditor – User Interface Panels
Power Chart
Menu
Groups
At A Glance
Functions
Savings Detail
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6. 2 Simple Steps to Perform
a Power Audit
1. Configure Power Auditor Administration Settings
- Power Audit License / Cost for Electricity / email reports
2. Create a Power Audit Wizard
- Using Active Directory OUs / IP Range
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7. Settings
On the Settings page of Administration
Settings, you can view the software’s
version information. The power cost used
for Power Auditor’s calculations and the
frequency with which machines are polled
for data can be changed from the defaults
here.
Automatically Reorganize Power Audit
Groups By Location will remove all existing
power audit groups, creating new groups
containing the same systems, categorized
by location.
Your PAL (Power Audit License) allows you
to audit a specified number of systems for a
specified period of time. Enter the PAL and
click the Upload PAL button. License
information (number of systems and
starting/ending dates) will be displayed.
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8. Administration Settings - Users
In Power Auditor the Users tab of Administration Settings duplicates the functions of the same tab in Management
Utility.
When you take any action on this tab in the Power Auditor, such as:
 Creating a new user
 Editing user features and tasks
 Removing a user
 Creating a new SQL login
that action is duplicated in the Management Utility, and vice versa.
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9. Email Settings
On the Email Settings tab, you can enter information
about authenticating to your email server, so that
Power Auditor can email an identified savings report.
Send a test email to make sure the configuration is
correct. This is also the place where the list of email
recipients is maintained.
If you are using Gmail, specify the full email address
as the username and smtp.gmail.com as the server.
Check the box to use SSL and specify port 587.
Once you have moved into Achieved Savings mode,
weekly and monthly achieved savings reports will
become available.
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10. Achieved Savings
The Achieved Savings tab allows you to compare
powered on hours before and after implementing your
power policy. After seven days of auditing, sufficient
data has been collected to establish a baseline, and at
that time Achieved Savings mode is enabled.
When moving into Achieved Savings mode you will need
to enter the IP address or hostname of the system(s)
which are running the System Area Manager software.
This will retrieve the number of licenses purchased and
will allow the number of systems up to the license count
to continue being monitored. Systems over the license
count will not have their power audit data collected.
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11. Power Audit Wizard
The Power Audit Wizard lets you define a power audit based on a Discovery Template, a Power
On Hours Template, and a schedule. You can edit existing templates, or create new ones, in the
wizard. Jobs created using the Network Discovery Wizard in Management Utility will appear
here in the Power Audit Wizard, and vice versa.
The results of a wizard job (such as how systems are displayed in Groups) may be different for
Power Auditor than for Management Utility, but using the wizard is the same through either
interface. Whether an action is taken through Power Audit Wizard or through Network
Discovery Wizard, the results are the same.
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12. Power Audit Exclusions
Auditing Exclusion Rules allow you to exclude systems from power auditing based on machine name or IP address.
Wildcards are allowed (a question mark for a single character, an asterisk for an unspecified number of characters). Systems
are added to the list when they are selected and then removed from an audit in Power Audit Groups. Removing a group or
subgroup does not add the systems to the Exclusion Rules list. The list is also not affected by removing systems from Groups
in Management Utility.
For holidays and vacation periods you can set a range of dates in Extended Holiday / Vacation Days. On any day specified
here, a system that is powered off all day will not be included in savings calculations. A system that is powered on for any
part of the day will be included.
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13. Power Audit Wizard –
Discovery Template
Discovery templates define a group of machines. This can be done by
specifying a range of IP addresses, with options to filter on the machine name. In
an Active Directory environment, a discovery template can also use Windows
domains and Organizational Units to define the group.
Enter the name of the discovery group. The group will be created in
the Groups sections of Power Auditor and Management Utility, and the machines
discovered using this template will be placed in the group. Note that multiple
discovery templates can use the same group name.
Set your discovery range either by Domain and Organizational Unit
or as an IP address range. Click on Allow Systems with duplicate information if
there is a router between your Management Utilities server and the target IP
range, as the router may not allow the target systems’ MAC addresses to be
passed, but instead represents the MAC address as the same for all systems. If
you have selected a domain, you can check the Replicate OUs box to create
subgroups for all Organizational Units in the domain.
Set filter options if desired. You may configure the filter so that only
machine names which meet the filter are selected, or you may enter a list to
exclude machine names. Wildcards can be used (an asterisk for any number of
characters, a question mark for a single character to filter based on the position
of a character.)
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14. Power Audit Wizard –
Power On Hours Template
The Power On Hours Template specifies the hours that a
group of machines should be powered on. Use the default
template or create your own. The easiest way may be to
copy the default template and then make any desired
changes.
Power consumption calculations are based on wattage
settings in this template. Defaults are supplied, to be
changed as desired.
The Copy Into Power Template button creates a Power
Management Template with the same name and settings in
Management Utility. The Power Management Template can
then be used to enforce power settings on managed
systems.
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15. Achieved Savings Mode –
Power On Hours Template
In Identified Savings mode, actual powered on
hours are compared to the desired hours as
defined in the Power On Hours Template. When
we move into Achieved Savings mode, we are
comparing the actual powered on hours with the
baseline of data that was collected during the
Identified Savings period. These hours are
displayed in the Power on Hours Template but
cannot be edited.
If you need to apply different hours on, then you
need to create a new Power on Hours Template
where you can enter the number of hours on for
Desktops, Servers and Notebooks for that specific
Power on Hours Template.
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16. Power Audit Wizard - Schedule
By default, the wizard is scheduled to run about 30 to 45 minutes from the time it’s
created, and to run at the same time every 24 hours. These settings can be changed
now, or by editing the wizard after it’s created.
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17. Power Audit Wizard
The newly created wizard is now listed and placed in the schedule. To run the discovery
now (without changing the schedule) click the Update Now link. Existing wizards can be
edited or removed. Removing a wizard will not affect the contents of the Groups area.
When multiple wizards are displayed, clicking a column header will update their sort
order.
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18. Power Audit Groups
Once an audit has been created and machines in the
group have been polled, the group name will appear in
the Groups section. Click the group name to see all
machines in the group. Identified savings will be
calculated when the audit has been running during the
entire preceding day, and updated automatically.
In an Active Directory environment, using discovery
templates based on your domains and Organizational
Units, the audit groups will reflect the way your
machines are organized in Active Directory.
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19. Groups and Subgroups
New groups and subgroups can be created, and systems can be moved from one
group to another. For example, discovery of systems across an IP range may create a
group with a mix of desktops and servers. Servers could be moved into a separate
group, with a different Power On Hours template used for that group.
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20. Group Details
Systems within the group chosen will be displayed on screen. They can be
sorted by clicking on the appropriate column heading.
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21. Changing Group Settings
Settings can also be changed within a group by highlighting a row (or rows) and using
the right-click menu to change system classification, wattages, or the Power On Hours
template.
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