Shutting Down Safely

Aim

We need to ensure that all our Macs are safely shut down at 6.00pm. On Wednesday the Macs will be in use until at least 9.00pm.

Walk Through

1. Load the Power Manager control panel and switch to the Scheduler panel.

   If the scheduler panel only displays Friday’s switches then you will need to licence Power Manager before using this tutorial.

   Trial edition users can only configure their Macs for Fridays. Licencing Power Manager will enable access to the rest of the week.

2. Clear the current configuration by selecting ‘All Off’ from the Hourly popup menu (bottom right corner of the scheduler table). Once this has been completed the hourly table will be all off (red).

3. Clear the current Start Up and Shut Down Switches by clicking each switch until it is off (red). The scheduler is now ready to be configured.

4. Switch all Shut Down switches on (yellow). This enables Power Manager to automatically shut down the Macintosh each day.

   

5. Finally click on the 5.00 - 5.59pm switch for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This configures Power Manager to automatically shut down the Macintosh, if it is not in use, at 5.59pm for all but Wednesday.

   For Wednesday click on the 8.00 - 8.59pm switch. This configures Power Manager to automatically shut down at 8.59pm.

   Expert Tip: Click 10.00 - 10.59pm to ensure that if the computer is still in use at 9.00pm and the user cancel s the shut down then the Macintosh will be shut down later that night!

   If the Macintosh is already off then no action will occur at 10.59pm.

   

   Your scheduler table should now look like the screen shot above.

6. Quit Power Manager.

Congratulations your Macintosh is now configured and ready for use.