Billing for Power consumption

[Skylark]

Could the billing system be repurposed to include Power Consumed?

Allowing you to pool the Power Consumed graphs in the same way network graphs are pooled.

[Lmax12]

I’m also curious about this possibility. Any comments on this?

It has been requested in this (old) thread aswell, so there is demand for this feature:

Feature request: Billing Extension - PDU Billing

Hey Team, We currently do PDU Billing per rack (two PDU’s a rack, one dirty feed one UPS protected) We currently do this with a perl script that polls and logs amps,wattage from the OID’s (SNMP) on our APC PDU’s. All we do is combine the two avg(wattage) outputs from mysql between the start and end date (first and last of month) and then run the following. combinedd-avgwatts * 24 * days / 1000 = Watt hours used over the month. All we do is set what the ‘paid for usage’ is, and the rest is a…