[CentOS] Monitoring power consumption

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