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1E Nightwatchman
Version
5.0.0.9332
Operating Systems
Windows XP (SP 2)
Windows Vista

1E Nightwatchman
SUMMARY

NightWatchman utilizes the power management capabilities of your computer and combines this with an effective scheduling system in a single, easy-to-use package. Using NightWatchman you can define company-wide power saving policies, scheduled shutdowns and automatic document saving.
Key Features & Benefits

Reduce energy costs and ‘go green’
NightWatchman® 5.0 enables businesses to save power and make huge savings on their energy bills. It quickly improves the environmental credentials of private and public sector organizations, whilst improving operational efficiency.

With the NightWatchman® power management solution from 1E, companies can save more than $50 / £43 per PC per year and dramatically reduce CO2 emissions.

PC power management
The NightWatchman software solution from 1E addresses the challenge of shutting down PCs in a large network where users require different settings for working and out-of-office hours. This easy to install and simple to use solution also allows critical patches and updates to be deployed as and when required, and guarantees 100% patch management success.

Now in its fifth generation, this Windows® Vista™ compatible version of NightWatchman uses extremely reliable and proven technology to enable centralized, scheduled shut down of PCs. It allows organizations to enforce corporate energy saving schemes.

In-expensive automated PC shut-down tool
At a low cost per PC/license, NightWatchman saves an average of $50 / £43 per PC per annum. With a typical ROI of less than 3 months, NightWatchman delivers significant benefits fast.

Key features and benefits include:

•Reduces bottom-line energy costs, saves energy and reduces CO2 emissions
•Automatically shuts down PCs according to a centrally controlled schedule
•Protects unsaved user data prior to shutdown
•Ensures 100% patch management and software update success
•Provides fast, detailed reporting on current and future potential savings
•Schedules daily, immediate or one-off shutdowns
•Centrally controllable using any systems management tool
•Minimizes the window of opportunity for virus infiltration
•Easily installable lightweight desktop client
  
Read the Energy Report by the National Energy Foundation and 1E

Visibility and control
If a business cannot monitor how much power its PC base is using, it cannot see how much power it can save.

NightWatchman empowers total visibility and control of current and future potential power usage. It produces reports that directly measure PC energy consumption and costs, and can predict savings based on applying different energy consumption policies.

New features of NightWatchman 5.0 include:
•Enhanced reporting: provides greater flexibility and visibility on network power consumption and high-speed reporting of achieved energy savings
•Power options compliance reporting: reports on power options settings for each PC across the network, enabling continuous monitoring of performance against energy saving policies
•Enhanced scripting: allows more control over application windows - as the machine shuts down to deal with issues in a more generic fashion
•Enhanced graphing engine: supports 24 new chart types with 3D graphics and single button-click for printing and exporting reports to PDF or Excel files
Overview

NightWatchman supports the following features:

.Shuts down or logs off PCs across an enterprise: When executed, NightWatchman checks to see if a user is logged on, saves any unsaved documents, logs off the user, and turns off the PC if desired. Administrators can:
 
-Schedule a daily, immediate or one-off shutdown
-Detect power setting capability per machine
-Put PCs into a hibernate or standby state
-Define the actions presented to a user
-Create or modify shutdown scripts
-Set the actions that will shut down the machine
If a user is still working, administrators can provide the option to postpone the shutdown and try again later. NightWatchman can also power off machines where the user has logged off or locked the machine.
.Protects unsaved user documents prior to shutdown: NightWatchman safely shuts down all types of documents with provided scripts for off-the-shelf software, such as Microsoft Office, or allows the creation of custom scripts for bespoke applications.

Upon the next user login, all saved files are presented in a simple interface, where users can keep or reject items as they wish.
.Produces reports to calculate current and potential savings: NightWatchman installs on each PC as a lightweight desktop client. Data is collected from the machine and sent to the Agility Framework reporting server, where it creates reports and charts, which include the following:
 
-Power consumption
-Energy costs
-C02 emissions
-Power savings estimates
-And much more
.Reports viewable over any web console: By accessing the Agility Framework website, the NightWatchman company-wide power consumption data reports can be easily viewed from any web browser.
.Controls PC power scheme settings: NightWatchman provides control over the monitor, hard disk, standby and hibernate power settings. This enables a company wide energy consumption policy to be easily set-up and maintained.
.Schedules daily, immediate or one-off shutdowns: NightWatchman enables the scheduling of shutdowns on a weekly/day of operation basis. It also enables a PC to be shut down, put into standby mode or hibernated immediately.
.Centrally controllable using any systems management tool: NightWatchman is fully configurable via the command-line. This enables company-wide policies to be easily configured in a scalable manner using existing management infrastructure.
.Easily installable lightweight desktop client: NightWatchman has an extremely small footprint, enabling the shutdown technology and PC power data to be gathered with minimal impact on the client PC.
.Energy state reporting: The reporting mechanism has been made more efficient and requires less network bandwidth to provide power state reporting across a network.
.Defer shutdown when there are pending SMS jobs: NightWatchman can now check for pending Systems Management Server (SMS) jobs prior to shutdown. This enables shutdowns to be scheduled appropriately with minimal disruption to SMS maintenance jobs.
.NightWatchman performance reports: NightWatchman now includes two reports that show how many PCs were successfully shut down and how many PCs had their shut downs interrupted.
.NightWatchman shuts down PCs awoken by SMSWakeUp: NightWatchman complements SMSWakeUpT to shutdown PCs that have been awoken by SMSWakeUp for patching. This maximizes the PC energy cost savings whilst still allowing critical software updates to take place.