Managing energy use in a network with a new SNMP Power State MIB

Author

Blanquicet, Francisco ; Christensen, Ken

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

509

Lastpage

511

Abstract

Energy consumption has become a major factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of IT equipment. The power state of IT equipment is effectively ldquoinvisiblerdquo to the network making it difficult to measure or control energy use. In this short paper we propose, prototype, and evaluate a new SNMP power state MIB and its agent to expose equipment power state to the network. The power state includes all supported power management (PM) capabilities, current PM settings, total and current active, inactive, and sleep times, and statistics on wakeup and sleep events. With knowledge of the power state of network devices, a network manager could remotely audit the energy consumption of IT equipment and make changes to PM settings. We have implemented a subset of the power state MIB for Microsoft Windows Vista desktop and server computers.

Keywords

power consumption; telecommunication network management; SNMP power state; energy consumption; network management; power management; Computer network management; Costs; Energy consumption; Energy management; Energy measurement; Knowledge management; Power measurement; Prototypes; Sleep; Statistics; Network Management; Power State MIB; SNMP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2008. LCN 2008. 33rd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2412-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2413-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2008.4664214

Filename

4664214