How to monitor power consumption of a physical server

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Kindly guide me to monitor the power consumption of a physical server in Data center.

Environment

Release : 20.3
Component : UIM - SNMPCOLLECTOR

Resolution

Hardware monitoring options:-

As long as you can enable the SNMP agent on the servers you want to monitor you can use:

SNMP-based:

- snmpcollector (NIC, CPU cores, RAM, FAN, Power Supply, temperature, battery, array, reachability, availability, etc.)
- snmpget (Requires loading of MIBs/Dependent MIBs for the metrics you need to monitor)