• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Command Line Power Management

    Power Management is handled using the pmset command line utility, which I covered in a very small part yesterday.  There’s a lot more than just waking on magic packets that you can do with pmset though.  For starters, let’s look at the original command we discussed: pmset -a womp 1 The -a refers to which power setting appled to whether the change was being made to battery, when we’re plugged in, UPS based power or, as we selected, all.  The flags, which fall into the first positional parameter are: -a – all -b – battery -c – wall charger -u – UPS The next parameter you’ll pass to the command…