[118685] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power Analysis/Management Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David B. Peterson)
Mon Oct 26 17:13:24 2009
From: "David B. Peterson" <dpeterson@sixapart.com>
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <366100670910261358g441f4281g965002723922cea2@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:12:39 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I do the same, but with ganglia. I've noticed that different APCs
report power differently (after comparing APC output to BCMS output.)
Our newer servers also report power consumption via IPMI: /usr/bin/
ipmitool sdr type "Current". We also graph that via ganglia.
-Dave
On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> Not to go too off-topic, but if there is a more preferred location
> for me to
> ask, please let me know. I'm looking for recommendations on open
> source
> packages that people are using for monitoring power utilization of
> their
> network/server gear.
>
> We're using Cacti currently, pulling the data from APCs via SNMP,
> and I
> wanted to check if someone had come across a better method before I
> reinvented the wheel.
