Broad device support

• Track and manage Windows PCs, Macintosh computers, and EnergyWise-enabled devices such as IP phones, switches, wireless access points (WAPs), routers, router modules, iPDUs, security cameras.

Enterprise Scalability

• 100K devices per server; scales out to 500K.
• Automatic license reclamation.
• Automatically update Surveyor clients to a specified version of the agent software or deploy specific versions of the client agent to specific clients.

Agent-based power management

• Agent-based, non-intrusive PC and Mac power management with minimal impact to end-users, business applications, or IT maintenance activity.
• Surveyor idle timer accurately monitors CPU, disk, and network utilization for device usage activity.

Centralized administration

• Centralized administration of device power states from a single, easy to use Web-based administrator console.
• Web 2.0 admin console simplifies deployment and ongoing maintenance.
• Prevent data loss with application handling and custom scripting.
• Robust device view helps you to locate, diagnose, and isolate problematic devices and network connection issues.

Role-based security and distributed administration

• Group-oriented administration with role-based security privileges.
• Assign different members of the IT team to specific roles for security and administration.
• Create different administrative roles with specific permission sets.
• Roles can have global or group-level permissions.

Direct device management

• Manage and control devices immediately via direct commands, or through policies and scheduled power schemes.
• Create policies that accommodate specific needs rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
• Each policy can use a unique, daily schedule.
• Policies can be assigned by location and associated with local energy rates and currencies for more accurate savings calculations.
• Easily create exception groups for mission-critical devices that should not be power-managed.

Automatic assignment of devices

• Detect IT devices on your network for automatic assignment to policies, groups, and locations.

Measurement Accuracy

• Power consumption configurable by PC make & model.
• Per-device energy baseline.
• Collect actual usage information for computers to help you optimize intelligent power management policies.

Locations, energy rate schedules, and currencies

• Support for multiple location that devices can be assigned to manually or through auto-assignment rules.
• Each location can have associated energy costs (fixed or variable for TOU and intraday rates) in that location's currency.
• Reports reflect correct savings by automatically calculating local currencies exchange rates with the specified system currency.

Wake on WAN

• High performance Wake-on-LAN support for waking PC and Mac client agents.
• Works in any network topology and across any number of subnets.
• Network-friendly approach requires minimal administration.

Remote access

• Wake Surveyor client agents from a remote location over the web.
• Schedule strategic wake requests to work around scheduled maintenance windows.

SCCM Integration

• Connect for Microsoft System Center seamlessly integrates the Surveyor server with Microsoft System Center 2012.
• From within the client management console, schedule Surveyor to wake your PCs and Macs before advertisements or software updates.
• Surveyor uses its Wake-on-WAN capability to wake up the computers and then turn them off following patch management or software updates.

Dashboards, Analytics, and Real-time Event Data

• Industry-leading business intelligence from Information Builders is integrated in Surveyor dashboards and analytics.
• Role-based dashboards provide actionable information to the stakeholders in IT energy management.
• Important events are recorded and reported to a central server for real-time event reporting.
• Energy use and user activity reports help administrators optimize policy assignment, and also flag and identify underutilized devices.
• Generate energy management and IT efficiency reports that drill-down into device data based on group, location, and other categories of interest.

Cisco EnergyWise device support

• Unified control of Cisco EnergyWise-enabled devices through network-based measurement of power draw and network-based control of device power levels. Requires Cisco EnergyWise-enabled network hardware and Power over Ethernet (PoE) devices.