How to Capture Power Consumption of Servers through Nagios

[sohini]

Hi All,

Currently, we are monitoring some 600 Physical Servers through Nagios Core. The servers are mostly older generation models of Dell & HP.

Currently we have Nagios Core and NCONF configured and the current resources are as follows:
8 GB RAM
100 GB Hard Disk
Operating System: CentOS

Now, I need a mechanism to capture the POWER CONSUMPTION of these servers through Nagios
I have received a response from Nagios Sales that we can monitor power consumption metrics, either by implementing a new plugin or using SNMP (if we have MIB for each device).

Please do let me know in details the pre-requisites for implementing each of the above 2 methods (details of the software packages to be installed).
This is an urgent project requirement. So, please suggest me a feasible method at the earliest.

Thanks & Regards
Sohini

[abrist]

1. SNMP - You will need to identify if your device supports a power consumption oid/mib. This will most likely require contacting the vendor for a mib datasheet (and the actual mib itself).
2. New plugin - You could either develop your own, or look at purchasing custom development.

[sohini]

So, if I want to purchase the custom development plugins, what is the procedure for the same? Do you have such customized scripts?

[abrist]

So, if I want to purchase the custom development plugins, what is the procedure for the same? Do you have such customized scripts?

Contact [email protected] for custom development quotes. Do understand that we will still need the necessary OIDs of the power consumption metrics from your devices to develop a custom plugin for your devices.