Monitoring Power With Nagios

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Kaushal Patel wrote:

> 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.
>

The answer to your question is most likely yes, you can do it.  Hook up
your "energy meter" and fire up its webserver.  Then try using the
check_http plugin to query the device.  If check_http doesn't do what you
want, you may end up writing your own plugin to do it.
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