Chapter 19. Managing Power Management

Power Management is a technique that enables hardware and software to minimize system power consumption. It is especially important for products that operate with batteries and desktop products.

Power Management tasks can be performed by using:

• the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)
• commands
• the Power Management application

Individual power management tasks are shown in the following table. The following section, Power Management Limitation Warnings, contains important information for all users of Power Management.

Prerequisite

You must have root user authority to perform most of the tasks in the following table.