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@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
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I'm not aware of an IPMI command that shows current power consumption.
That entirely depends on the system as far as I'm aware.
Dell R610 will give you this information from "ipmitool sdr":
Current 1 | 0.28 Amps | ok Current 2 | 0.28 Amps | ok Voltage 1 | 240 Volts | ok Voltage 2 | 238 Volts | ok System Level | 126 Watts | ok
So that's per-PSU volts and amps, and a combined power figure.
Not quite as nice as what you can get out of the dell specific tools, as it'll then return you peaks and total power consumption since a point in time.
jh
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
John Hodrien wrote on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:37:16 +0100 (BST):
System Level | 126 Watts | ok
Ah, thanks. My systems don't show that :-)
Yep, it's entirely system dependent. And on a current Dell, I believe you don't get these stats unless you spec redundant PSUs.
jh
I would like to monitor the power consumption of my server. What I am
looking 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)
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, compdoc compdoc@hotrodpc.com wrote:
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)
An external device would be fine if I could somehow transfer the information to my centos server where I want to remotely access / process this information.
Best, Peter
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Peter Peltonen wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:11 PM, compdoc compdoc@hotrodpc.com wrote:
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)
An external device would be fine if I could somehow transfer the information to my centos server where I want to remotely access / process this information.
Since killawatt was brought up, how about http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/
Regards,
Regards,
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compdoc -
John Hodrien -
Kai Schaetzl -
Peter Peltonen -
Rafa Griman -
Tom Diehl