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Based on our testing, we estimate that manually recording power consumption results on a spreadsheet over the course of 180 days would devour three hours and 27 minutes and require 1,620 steps. This is definitely better than when SysAdmins were stuck strolling the data center with clipboards in hand, but it still requires a lot of human attention. By comparison, the Power Manager plugin automatically collected the necessary power consumption data after a one-time policy-based automation activation. This automation allowed us to track down power zombies in 31 seconds and 7 steps.