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.