Starting with Release 4, Auto Shutdown Manager supports Central Management via it’s build in Management Console.
The Management Console allows configuration, updates, management and deployment of settings and policies from one central place to the all network clients or specified client groups.
It also supports daily administration tasks such as remote wakeup, shutdown, logoff users and restart single PCs or selected PC groups. 

The Management Console provides five management categories:

Client Manager

The Client Manager allows creating of groups of power saving policies, setting security options and assigning Client PCs to them.  For example different settings can be defined for office PCs, support staff, sales or marketing.  The number of groups is unlimited. Clients are assigned to their appropriate groups very easily via drag and drop. Furthermore the Client Manager also supports remote wakeup and remote shutdown commands such as reboot, standby, hibernate, log off users or power off. 

License Manager

The License Manager is used to manage the licensing system.
There are two possible ways of licensing. Each client can have its own permanent license – or can lease a license from the server. If clients lease licenses from servers –there is no need to enter licenses manually to each client, which makes the overall licensing process very easy and transparent. The lease time for client licenses is 90 days – so outdated or inactive clients are removed automatically after 90 days and their licenses are reused for other clients. Each time when a client connects the server, the lease time is updated. The timeframe of 90 days is long enough to cover occasionally connected clients such as laptops and to bridge longer out of office times. Unused clients can also be removed manually, which releases their licenses immediately.

Update Manager

The Update Manager helps to keep Auto Shutdown Manager up-to-date on the entire client base without touching the clients. The process work fully automatic and transparent – even if no users are logged on to their PC.

Maintenance Manager

The Maintenance Manager helps to automatically power up clients for maintenance tasks, keep them running as long as needed and power them down after the administration task is done. The wakeup process can be planed via a timer or executed immediately via Wake On Lan.

Client Monitor

The Client Monitor is used to display an overview of recent events.
Events such as initializations, update status or issues, shutdown or the status of remote shutdown commands are displayed.