[EN] User Guide - MITM - Energy Saver for PC - Settings

[EN] User Guide - MITM - Energy Saver for PC - Settings


Energy Saver For PC - Settings contains pages of additional confiiguration settings for Energy Saver For PC. It allows administrators to set up system alerts and automation rules.

This application is available to you in the main menu of the platform if your user rights allow it.

Setting up system alerts

This page allows you to configure the severity of the different categories of events generated by the agents, which are then displayed in the application Alerts for PC.

Entity selection

The left pane displays the entities you have access to. Before making any change, click an entity to select where the changes must apply.
Entities generally represent Business Units managed by sub-admins, or a whole organization.

Event settings

The right pane of the page lets you set the importance for each event available.
There are 5 levels of importance (Ignored, Innocuous, information, Warning, Critical).
By default, all events are set to Ignored, which means they are not saved in the system. With any other level, events are saved.
Importance levels let you sort important alerts more easily in the application Alerts for PC.

Event types are sorted in these categories:
  1. Licence management
  2. Power management
  3. System
  4. Agent handler
Remember to use the Save button at the top after a change.

Email alerts

Upon request made to the AVOB Technical Support, alerts can be sent by email. 
Importance levels then define the frequency of these emails:
  1. Ignore: Alerts are not saved, and no emails are sent.
  2. Innocuous: Alerts are saved but not sent
  3. information : Alerts are sent in batches every 24 hours
  4. Warning: Alerts are sent in batches every hour
  5. Critical: Alerts are sent immediately

Standardization rules

Standardization rules let you define actions to be executed when an agent connects to the server.

Entity selection

The left pane displays the entities you have access to. Before making any change, click an entity to select where the changes must apply.

Creating a new ru​le

Select an entity, then click "New rule" at the top right of the page.

Standardization rule settings

This section contains the following elements:
  1. Name of the rule
  2. Whether the rule is currently active
  3. An optional description

Selection filters

This is a formula to determine whether a computer must apply this rule when it connects to the server, composed of criteria linked by logical operators. Click "Add a criteria" to add a line.
Each criteria has the following columns:
  1. Criteria Operator (IF for the first one, then either AND or OR): determines the logical operator linking this criteria to the previous one.
  2. Parenthesis (opening): enter one or multiple '(' characters to open a statement block
  3. Property: which property of the computer is filtered by this criteria. Possible properties are:
    1. Agent GUID: unique ID used by Energy Saver
    2. Computer name
    3. IP address
    4. Active Directory OU
    5. Operating System
    6. Computer type: Laptop or desktop.
    7. New computer: special property for computers connecting for the first time.
  4. Operation: Any of the following depending on the property: Equal, Equal (regex), contains, starts with, ends with
  5. Value: Can be auto-completed depending on property
  6. Parenthesis (closing): enter one or multiple ')' characters to close a statement block
  7. Delete: only available if there are more than one criteria.

Make sure there is the same number of opening and closing parenthesis.

Example 1

In this example, the rule applies only if this is the computer's first connection to the AVOB server, and its OS is Windows 8 or 10.

Notes:
  1. Values for "New computer" can only be "Yes" and "No".
  2. Because of operator precedence, parenthesis surround the OS statements. The block is opened on line 2 and closed on line 3.
  3. The OS criteria use the "Start with" operator to take into account all editions  (Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, etc.).
Example 2


In this example, the rule applies if the computer has a name in the format "ABC_PROD_5" and if its IP is either between 192.168.0.1 and192.168.0.10, or between 192.168.10.20 and 192.168.10.100.
Notes:
  1. The first criteria tries to match the computer name to a regular expression.
  2. IP comparisons do not use alphabetical order, but rather numerical order. For instance, 192.168.2.5 is lesser than 192.168.10.2.
  3. Nested parenthesis are used in order to filter on 2 IP ranges.

Standardization actions

This section defines the actions to be applied when the selection filters match.
Up to 5 actions are possible:
  1. Move to custom group: move the agent into a previously-created custom group
  2. Change Energy Saver state: Switch the agent to "Saver" or "Viewer" mode
  3. Apply energy policy: Assign an energy policy to an agent
  4. Apply pricing policy: Assign a pricing policy to an agent
  5. Apply an update package: Update the agent with the selected package

Managing standardization rules

The right pane lists all the rules created in the selected entity.



This table lets you reorder, disable and enable the created rules:
  1. Position: Change the priority of a rule. When an agent connects to the server, it checks the rules in order. As soon as it finds a rule that applies to it, it executes the appropriate actions then stops checking the rules. 
  2. State: Whether the rule is currently active
  3. Scope: Adjust the entity the rule applies to
  4. Duplicate
  5. Edit. Opens the rule page.
  6. Delete.
Note: Only one rule can apply to an agent. If the filters for multiple rules can apply to an agent, only the first one is executed.





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