Monitoring when computer sleeps

UnworthyBean · 19 Aug 2014 at 11:52

I've set my main server to go to sleep when I've guaranteed no one is using it (generally from when we go to work through to when we come back) however I'm fairly certain it's not actually going to sleep most of the time. As we're out, it's difficult to tell if it's actually went to sleep.

What's the best way of finding out either what time its been to sleep or what time its been awake?

Makhaira · 19 Aug 2014 at 11:59

It should get listed in the Event Log in Adminstrative tools if I remember right.

Nanobot · 20 Aug 2014 at 14:18

Not aware of any commands that would report timings but you could try this command that creates a diagnostic report on anything preventing suspend/sleep states. It does require command prompt with admin:

powercfg -energy

UnworthyBean · 20 Aug 2014 at 19:21

Nanobot said:
Not aware of any commands that would report timings but you could try this command that creates a diagnostic report on anything preventing suspend/sleep states. It does require command prompt with admin:

powercfg -energy

Haven't had a proper look through the report, but looks like there could be some useful info there, cheers.

Makhaira said:
It should get listed in the Event Log in Adminstrative tools if I remember right.

Had a quick look through and yep, all the data is there. Saved it as a custom view for easier access. Now all I need is something to export it to csv or anything to get it into a pretty graph for easier reading. Again, cheers for the info.

andshrew · 20 Aug 2014 at 19:47

UnworthyBean said:
Had a quick look through and yep, all the data is there. Saved it as a custom view for easier access. Now all I need is something to export it to csv or anything to get it into a pretty graph for easier reading. Again, cheers for the info.

Right click the view -> Save all events in custom view as. You can then change the file type to csv.