[118694] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Power Analysis/Management Tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Blackford)
Tue Oct 27 00:06:55 2009
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:05:48 -0700
From: Bill Blackford <bblackford@gmail.com>
To: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Same. Cacti
-b
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>wrote:
> I'd think SNMP will be what any product uses to query APC gear, even their
> own suite uses SNMP to collect information and receive traps.
> We use cacti to graph our loads on the APC power bars and UPS gear, gives
> you everything you need on all phases/legs, was there something in
> particular you were after?
>
> -g
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Galbraith [mailto:brandon.galbraith@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:59 PM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Power Analysis/Management Tools
>
> 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.
>
--
Bill Blackford
Network Engineer
