[Gllug] power usage utility?

[Geo]

> Is there a way of  finding out how much electricity a server is using
> without having to power it down and plug in a ampmeter?
>
> I need to know how much power each server is using in order to make some
> cost savings at our data centre,
> but obviously it would cause some problems if I have to power them down and
> up again.
>
> The servers run on centos 5.x , fedora 4, solaris 5.7, freebsd 6.2.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Oliver


There are some  meters that clamp around the power wires then measure the flow.
 Used mostly for load balancing on Phases in industrial scenarios.
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