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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Thank for the info on the data sources. I didnt know they would keep customizations now, thats awesome!
I am not sure what the best approach is to making the KWH usage into a clean customer facing report would be. Currently the only way to get that number is to use the resource metric trend report.
In an ideal world, id like to be able to refer to the calculated value of Watthours based on the current dashboard view time range
The data point should be simple enough.... (WattHours maximum value) - (WattHours minimum value) = Consumed WattHours for the given time range.
If that data point could be calculated with the Big Number widget, it would be ideal.
The additional step would be to combine the usage of all of the PDUs into a single Big Number for the given date range (probably a monthly view)
Near as I can tell, there is not a way to look at the first and last value in a data range for a dashboard.. it appears to be designed to look exclusively at the most recent data values.
However, the widgets are able to display a graph showing the historic data. So that makes me thinks there may be a way to reference the previous data values.
The dashboard I put together shows a live view of the data from each PDU.
The Gauge and Big Number widgets display the current values.
The Graph widget displays historic data - but I dont see a way to refer to the historic values for any other widget.
