How This Book Is Organized

This manual contains the following chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1, Introduction to Power Management describes the value of reducing power consumption and provides an overview of how Power Management features can help achieve that goal.

Chapter 2, Managing Monitor Power describes how to use software features to turn off power to a monitor when that device is not in use.

Chapter 3, Managing System Power describes the features of the dtpower program that enable a desktop system to power off automatically when not in use and power on again automatically at a time you choose. This chapter describes additional ways to use the Suspend-Resume feature that saves your system state when you power down and resumes in the save state.

Appendix A, Configuring Power Management Using the Command Line describes how to configure Power Management features through the pmconfig command and the power.conf file. This appendix also explains how to change the idleness definition by editing the power.conf file.

Appendix B, Troubleshooting explains how to respond to various problems and error messages related to Power Management software.