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Mac
5 years ago

Reporting APC PDU power usage

I have a client looking to monitor their colo rack power usage and have a monthly report showing consumed power. Ultimately, they want to be sure they are being billed fairly by their hosting da...
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Mac
5 years ago
1 hour ago, Stuart Weenig said:

You'd need to know the RMS Voltage along with the Amps as well as the power factor (assuming AC). If those metrics are available via SNMP from the PDU, this should be doable.

Thanks Stuart.
the PDU I am testing with does not include the SNMP info for voltage and power factor with the default data source.
I will need to do an SNMP walk to see if i can pull that data manually 

i may need to test with a newer PDU as well.