Jan Lindblad (jlindbla) writes: > There are a number of us IETF participants, from a rather long list of > equipment providers as well as operators, that are working on solving > very concrete and current issues with respect to energy management in > network equipment. For example, we have noted that most devices can > report their energy and/or power usage, but they all do that in > different ways and with different precision. We see a real need to > standardize this, in order to realize use cases many operators are > asking for, somewhat urgently.
As an operator, I can second this. We are adding continuous and consistent power consumption monitoring across our fleet of routers. Most of them expose their overall energy consumption (as well as that of some components) via the wonderful ENTITY-MIB/ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB or close vendor-specific cousins of those. But (even within one vendor) the representation of these sensors varies widely, which makes it complicated to (a) locate the relevant/best sensors and (b) deal with the different representations - some devices have separate volt/ampere sensors, others have watts, some measure performance into the PSU, some out of, some both. Not to mention funny bugs, e.g. claiming the power sensor is in "dBm" units where the values clearly indicate Watts (280 dBm aren't really plausible :-). It's painful and already cost me a lot of time, which leads me to suspect that router power consumption is not widely monitored in the industry (I could be wrong though, maybe people use other methods). -- Simnon. _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list OPSAWG@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg
