Fine grain non-intrusive distributed information technology infrastructure power management system

摘要

A power management system includes a power management agent and a computing device comprising a CPU, memory, persistent storage, operating system, and communication mechanism. A power management server communicates with the communication mechanism using a secure communication protocol, communicates with the power management agent when the agent is in the connected mode, and provides a non-intrusiveness monitoring function. The power management agent operates in both a connected and disconnected mode, and maintains a list of applications, tasks, and activities and their dependency on power manageable components in the device. An application control framework defines a non-intrusiveness of a device for every application on the device and a usage of the device to allow fine grain control of the device. A management station sends a set of monitoring commands to at least one agent to monitor the intrusiveness of a power management function on the device without enforcing any power management.