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Wake History & Failures

This page explains how to monitor wake operations in progress and review failures after they occur. Campus WoL provides three places where wake status and history are visible, each serving a different purpose.

Role Required: Operator

You need the Operator or Admin role to view wake failures and schedule history.

Active Wake Progress Banner

When a wake operation is running, a live progress banner appears at the top of the interface. This banner is only visible during active operations -- it is not a historical record.

The banner shows:

  • Elapsed time since the operation started
  • Per-device progress as each device moves through the stages: pending, waking, verifying, success, or failed

Each device's MAC address is listed individually so you can track exactly which devices have succeeded and which are still in progress. The banner updates in real time as each device completes its wake cycle.

Once all devices have finished (succeeded or failed), the banner remains visible until you dismiss it or navigate away. The banner does not persist after you leave the page or log out.

Wake Failures Dashboard Card

The Dashboard includes a Wake Failures card that shows devices from recent wake operations that failed to come online. This is the primary place to check for problems after a wake operation completes.

The card displays:

  • Failed devices grouped by classroom so you can see which rooms had issues
  • A Retry All button for each classroom, allowing you to re-attempt the wake for all failed devices in that room at once
  • Auto-refresh every 30 seconds so the card stays current without manual reloading

The Wake Failures card shows failures from recent wake operations. To navigate from a failure to a retry, click the Retry All button next to the affected classroom. The system will send magic packets only to the devices that failed, not to devices that already succeeded.

Wake Failures Dashboard Card

Capture the wake failures card on the Dashboard showing failed devices grouped by classroom with Retry All buttons.

Tip

If the same devices fail repeatedly, the problem is likely outside the application. Check that Wake-on-LAN is enabled in the device BIOS, the network cable is connected, and the MAC address in the inventory matches the physical device. See Troubleshooting Wake Failures for a full checklist.

Schedule Execution History

Each wake schedule maintains a history of its past runs. This history is located within the Schedules view, not on a separate page.

For each past run, the history shows:

  • Timestamp of when the scheduled wake executed
  • Success count -- how many devices woke successfully
  • Failed PCs -- how many devices did not respond

To view this history, navigate to Schedules in the Administration sidebar section, then select a schedule to see its execution history. For more on creating and managing schedules, see Scheduling Wake Jobs.

What Is Not Available

There is no standalone browsable list of all past wake jobs. Wake history is distributed across three places:

  • The active progress banner for operations currently in progress
  • The Wake Failures dashboard card for recent failures
  • The per-schedule execution history for scheduled wake runs

Manual (non-scheduled) wake operations that completed successfully are not stored in a browsable history. If you need an audit trail of who performed wake operations and when, check the Audit Log (Admin role required).

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