Hi all, I would like to monitor the power consumption of my server. What I am looking for is: * a simple monitoring device that would measure the power consumption of 1 server * a way to get the consumption reading from that device to my centos server (via usb / wlan / whatever works) Any suggestions? Best, Peter
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Peter Peltonen <peter.peltonen at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I would like to monitor the power consumption of my server. What I am > looking for is: > > * a simple monitoring device that would measure the power consumption > of 1 server > > * a way to get the consumption reading from that device to my centos > server (via usb / wlan / whatever works) > > Any suggestions?Does your server support IPMI (iLO, BMC, ...)? IPMI's quite easy and useful. HTH Rafa
Peter, I have never done it directly of a servers PSU, however I am sure it can be done via SNMP or on a lower level via a management interface(iLO, B/RSA, etc..). However I have done it from a good APC PDU that had SNMP monitoring for all kinds of power aspects. Hope that helps. Aly ------Original Message------ From: Peter Peltonen Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Monitoring power consumption Sent: Apr 13, 2011 10:16 AM Hi all, I would like to monitor the power consumption of my server. What I am looking for is: * a simple monitoring device that would measure the power consumption of 1 server * a way to get the consumption reading from that device to my centos server (via usb / wlan / whatever works) Any suggestions? Best, Peter _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network
> I would like to monitor the power consumption of my server. What I amlooking for is: How about an external device? I own one of those killawatt devices. You can program in your local power cost, and it displays how much it actually costs to run the server. (along with lots of other info)
Peter, The ones I used were from APC and are under the product line of Metered Rack PDU, u can find them on the apc website. Here are a few product numbers from that line(APC7800,801,802) they all have web, snmp (u can graph with MRTG, or whatever), Telnet access, etc.. they start at about 300USD from what I've seen. HTH Aly ------Original Message------ From: Peter Peltonen Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Monitoring power consumption Sent: Apr 13, 2011 10:36 AM Hi, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:26 PM, <aly.khimji at gmail.com> wrote:> I have never done it directly of a servers PSU, however I am sure it can be done via SNMP or on a lower level via a management interface(iLO, B/RSA, etc..). > > However I have done it from a good APC PDU that had SNMP monitoring for all kinds of ?power aspects.I am also looking for a way to measure other devices than computers and I want to collect this information to the centos server. But I guess it doesn't matter what kind of device I connect to the PDU, it still can measure its power consumption and report it somehow? Can you recommend any cheap model? I was aware of these PDU's existing, but I haven't really considered them as they probably are quite expensive as they do also many other things (monitor the load of the server etc)... Best, Peter _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network