[mrtg] power montor

[Steve Shipway]

There are a lot of companies that produce small environmental monitoring
devices that can take a digital input.  These devices sit on your network
and can be SNMP queried by MRTG, Nagios and other management systems.

 

For example, this one:

http://www.networktechinc.com/environment-monitor-micro.html

We use their higher-end devices to monitor temperature, humidity, door
sensors, and other things.

 

Your problem would be that in reality you want to *count* the pulses, and
have MRTG query a total pulse count (this is far better than a rate as you
will get more accurate data).

 

Some of the devices may be able to give you pulse counts; others may just
let you know the current state.  You may be sufficiently  knowledgeable to
make a sinle pulse counter and SNMP agent using an Arduino or Raspberry Pi,
which would be a cheap solution.

 

This company makes SNMP-aware devices that can provide pulse counts:

http://www.hw-group.com/products/damocles/damocles_1208_en.html

I have not actually used one of these, but it appears to provide the
required features, though it may be a bit big for your requirements.

 

Personally, I'd build a device to do it using a RasPi which would cost about
$50 all in, plus a few hours coding up a daemon to count pulses and output
this via the SNMP daemon.

 

HTH

 

Steve

 

Steve Shipway

 <mailto:s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz> s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz

(GNU Terry Pratchett)

 

From: mrtg [mailto:mrtg-bounces+s.shipway=auckland.ac.nz at lists.oetiker.ch]
On Behalf Of Nick price
Sent: Tuesday, 19 May 2015 8:14 a.m.
To: mrtg at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: [mrtg] power montor

 

The meter from our electric utility supplier gives out 3.5 volt pulses on 2
wires 1000 pulses=0.16kWHr.

 

I need to get these pulses into MRTG. 

 

Does anyone know where I can get a box that will output the pulses in a form
that MRTG can read them preferably over Ethernet.

 

I would also like it to interface to Nagios if possible.

 

Nick Price

 

 

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