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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
On 8/28/2020 at 7:16 AM, Stuart Weenig said:

Yeah, you'll need to create a "Resource Metric Trend". Setup the filter so that it includes the instances you're interested in and the new live power usage datapoint. Then make sure the sum column is checked/included. It will sum the datapoint over the timeframe for each instance (row) in the report.

Thanks for all the assistance on this!

I was able to make the report and I can output the datapoint delta for the given time

my trouble now is that the report wants to automatically adjust the value for the large number. I dont seem to have anyway to adjust the output.

Device interface:45,154.2 kWh
SNMP Energy: 45154.2 (kWh)
SNMP EnergyRaw: 451542 (kWh tenths)

Report output
Energy: 45.15k
EnergyRaw: 451.54k

While these numbers are technically correct summaries for the input data, it is inaccurate representation of the actual units being tallied
You would not display the output of 45.15k kWh… it just doesn’t look right. And I cant add a unit reference or description to the report output. 

Secondarily, the Change(Delta) column doesn’t really explain what we are looking at if I give this report to a client. 

Is there any way to edit this type of report to make it more presentable?

Thanks again,
Mac