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Read this for some background:


You need to edit your original post, select the settings, then click the </> button so that the settings come through correctly. The forum software interprets surrounding text with underscores as a sign to italicize incorrectly and you need to wrap it in a code block to prevent this.

Also, your client settings should start with BESClient, not TEMClient.

See this page for general background on the client settings: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Configuration%20Settings

Also, see this page for how to set client settings at client install time: https://gist.github.com/jgstew/51a99ab4b5997efa0318


The _BESClient_Resource_WorkIdle setting determines how long the BigFix client uses the CPU before stopping. It combined with the _BESClient_Resource_SleepIdle setting determine the maximum single core CPU usage of the client. The default ends up being around 2% maximum for a single CPU core.


I would not actually recommend using any of the following settings, unless you have a very good reason:

_BESClient_Resource_QuietEnable
_BESClient_Resource_QuietStartTime
_BESClient_Resource_QuietSeconds

I would recommend the following settings when a client is running on battery power:

_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveEnable
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout0
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout1
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout2
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout3
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout4
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout5

Read about the concept here: Automatically adjust BESClient settings when on battery power

You can automatically adjust the client’s maximum CPU usage when a user is logged in, and then readjust it when a user is logged out, but even then I wouldn’t really recommend setting it lower than the default that is about 2%.