Monitoring Power With Nagios

[Daniel maher]

If the energy meter has a webserver on board, why do you need Nagios to display the results?  Surely the webserver on the energy meter has some sort of interface for this purpose?

If your concern is to monitor, alert on, and trend the data that the energy meter is gathering, then this is where Nagios would be useful.  Does the energy meter speak SNMP?  If so, it should be a reasonably straightforward exercise to write a script to poll and pull into Nagios.  If it does not, then your task may prove to be more difficult...


Daniel Maher
System Engineer
ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kaushal Patel [mailto:kaushalpatel at gmail.com] 
Sent: January 14, 2005 9:23 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Power With Nagios

Hello All,

I have a question. So far I've seen that Nagios is used mostly for
network monitoring only. What I wanted to know is, is it possible to
display the electrical quantities like power, voltage, current etc
with Nagios ?

For this, I've an energy meter with a webserver on board and it can
connect to ethernet. So, with the use of Nagios can we display these
results on WWW remotely ? More precisely, what I plan to do is display
those quantities in a manner similar to some online energy montioring
services available.  However those are very costly, whereas the very
fundamental logic of Nagios is monitoring for free, but this time
electrical parameters.

I hope I've mentioned clearly without any confusion and hoping to
expect some detailed suggestions.

Thanks, 
Kaushal Patel
MSEE, The State University of New York at Buffalo
90 Cornell Street
Buffalo, NY 14214
Ph: 716-836-5674


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