Power Manager: User Guide

Table of Contents

1. About this User Guide

Hardware and Software Requirements

2. Installing Power Manager

Downloading Power Manager

Mounting the Power Manager Disk Image

Setting Up Power Manager

Installing the Scheduling Engine

After Installing

What is Installed?

3. Creating an Energy Saving Schedule

A Better Inactivity Triggered Sleep

Smarter Constraints

Editing Your New Event

Combining Multiple Inactivity Events

Shut Down at Night to Save Energy

Shutting Down in the Evening

Starting Up Ready for Work

Sleep During Breaks to Save Energy

Sleeping During Your Coffee Break

Saving Energy During lunch

4. Creating an Event

Schedule Assistant

Common Steps

Triggers

Criteria, Conditions, and Constraints

Actions and Tasks

Executable Environments

Alternative Event Creators

AppleScript

Automator

Quick Schedule

Command Line

Power Manager Professional

5. Scheduling Events

Starting and Stopping the Scheduler

Managing Events

Enabling an Event

Disabling an Event

Editing an Event

Removing an Event

Flexible Schedules

Pending Events

Altering Pending Events

6. Performing Events

On Demand Events

Notifications

Unavoidable Notifications

Altering the Notification Period

Quiet Events

Warning Notifications

7. Defaults and Preferences

8. Removing Power Manager

Remove Power Manager’s Steps

Welcome

Authentication

Removal

Conclusion

What is Removed?

9. Legal

Software Licence Agreement

DssW Power Manager Software Licence Agreement