Defaults and Preferences

Defaults available in Power Manager.

Defaults can be read, written, and removed with the macOS defaults command line tool.

Power Manager's defaults Keys
KeyValueDefaultDescription
autoConnectRemotebooleanfalse

Automatically reconnect to remote connections upon relaunching.

management.servicestringsudoRestrict access using this PAM service.
DSSWPMAKServicesDefaultWideDomainsbooleanfalseSearch all Bonjour domains. If false, search only .local when searching for Power Manager services. If true, search all available domains.
DSSWPMAKServicesResolveTimeoutfloat30.0Seconds before timing out service address resolutions.
softwareupdate.checkbooleantrue

v5.11+: Replaced by the softwareupdate.automatic API.
pre-v5.11: Automatically check and alert administrator users about available software updates.

To enable automatic reconnection of remote schedulers use the following defaults command:

defaults write uk.co.dssw.powermanager.standard autoConnectRemote YES