Power Analysis/Management Tools

[chris at nifry.com (Chris Russell)]

 Cacti is a cracking bit of software, but I found this difficult to
integrate and customize to what we required. 

 I ended up writing our own, custom pollers, Database backend, web frontend
and rrd to generate the graphing. 

 We were quoted something like ?50k for something awfully similar..


Cheers,

Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Galbraith [mailto:brandon.galbraith at gmail.com] 
Sent: 26 October 2009 20:59
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Power Analysis/Management Tools

Not to go too off-topic, but if there is a more preferred location for me to
ask, please let me know. I'm looking for recommendations on open source
packages that people are using for monitoring power utilization of their
network/server gear.

We're using Cacti currently, pulling the data from APCs via SNMP, and I
wanted to check if someone had come across a better method before I
reinvented the wheel.