First monitored equipment

The first network equipment monitored during the project PowerMon , was an intelligent unit of power distribution (PDU) of mark "PGEP" ​http://www.pgep.com/, used to distribute electricity to Worker Nodes within LAL's data center .The Web site of the PDU is accessible from LAL's Intranet , with the address: ​http://pdu-pgep1/ .

IP Identification with nslookup

the order: nslookup pdu-pgep1 , makes it possible to recover following information:

Server:         134.158.91.80
Address:        134.158.91.80#53

pdu-pgep1.lal.in2p3.fr  canonical name = pc-90178.lal.in2p3.fr.
Name:   pc-90178.lal.in2p3.fr
Address: 134.158.90.178 

SNMP Interrogation

Pdu PGEP1, is an SNMP agent having a downloadable MIB from : ​http://pdu-pgep1/mib.zip , accessible from LAL's intranet.

For example : the shell command: snmpwalk -v 1 -c public pdu-pgep1 1.3.6.1.4.1.21239.3.3.1.4 returns a series of integers corresponding to ten times (10x) the real consumption measured in amps for each of eight (8) Outlets of circuit 1.